OpenAI's journey shows that innovation doesn't follow a construction-project plan but involves moving fast, experimenting, accepting failures, recognizing unexpected successes, and doubling down on what works—this is the real model that others need to understand about innovation.

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Reid Hoffman

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innovation is that you can plan it and it works exactly the plan... it's moving fast and experimenting and trying things. And, by the way, occasionally, 'whoop, that didn't work,' and, 'oh, wow, we had all this spare compute and we tried it and it really worked. Let's do more.'

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Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on AI and the Future (Full Audio)Reid Hoffman
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:25:17 PM

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