I am not a big Sam Altman fan but this is not a good comp. Sam is an insider in SV and one of the biggest at that. He knows everyone. You are basically saying Sam didn’t know anything about AI yet he is one of OpenAI’s founding members. Unlike Elon, at least Sam knows a thing or two about actual software dev.
Okay, what experience did Musk have in aerospace when he founded SpaceX?
He had money. Why do you keep conflating people doing business using their own money with appointing government officials with zero experience?
I thought this place was against credentialism and all about experimentation utilizing people who show promise? Whither “talent investing”?