Sam Altman: “I think that the best founders are generalists all the way through”

“I think that the best founders are generalists all the way through. Maybe you’re a specialist in a particular technology that you develop, but when you transition from building a product to building a company, you have to specialize in generalization starting that day and never look back.”

Full video: Greylock “Blitzscaling 02: Sam Altman on Y Combinator and What Makes The Best Founders” (Sep 2015)