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Barry Diller's wife, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, was a proofreader of Sam Altman's last article 'How to be successful'.

Most surprising thing about this article: Diane von Furstenberg, fashion designer and wife of billionaire media entrepreneur Barry Diller, was a proofreader.

Stanford course by Russell Berman and Peter Thiel

The author does write about GE's business problems. GE capital, as mentioned above. And the Alstom acquisition, which was a too expensive bet on the wrong horse.

Nrs. 2, 6, 10, 11, 17 and 24 went through YC.

Respectively, they are: Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, Instacart, Machine Zone and Doordash.

It's also badly written, with many me's an I's, like

'I squint at the plant names that have been rendered into Dutch.'

and uninteresting facts about the appearance of the scientist, like:

'Meis is a big man, almost a foot taller than me, broad-shouldered and bullet-headed with an exuberant laugh. Eyeing the boxes, though, he looks solemn.'