How to Build the Future with Sam Altman
I&#x27;m sure this will get downvoted into oblivion, but why should I or other engineers&#x2F;entrepreneurs look at Sam Altman as a massive startup success story when his lone startup Loopt never really achieved product-market fit, and ended up in a firesale?<p>Across 5 funding rounds, Crunchbase lists Loopt as having raised $39 million and then was acquired (acqui-hired?) for $43 million. He didn&#x27;t create any multiples of value for his investors. Loopt wasn&#x27;t a breakout hit like so many other YC startups have been. It was certainly one of the first interesting location-based apps in the App Store, but soon was surrounded by other location-based apps and never really appeared to surface and gain traction.<p>Obviously Sam runs YC now and has dramatically improved it, but in the lens of being an entrepreneur, isn&#x27;t he still essentially unproven, and not a success story in the startup world?