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I'm John Betcher with Keech Hegey, the author of the new book The Optimist, Sam Altman, Open AI, and the Race to Invent the Future.

Our protagonist, our hero, Sam Maltman's at Stanford University, and it's a leafy campus in California's weather.

And if you know what that is, you'll smile.

However, right then, at that moment, it is just beginning with the translation of Stanford from a

school known as the West Coast Ivy League into a school associated with Silicon Valley,

which is inventing itself all around Stanford. Sand Hill Road, which was famous as a location

of the early venture capital funds, is in walking distance from the campus, along with all the

fine shops changing all the time. It's a beautiful neighborhood where all the founders of the social media that you now

use routinely, are once walked and talked.

And one of the joys of Keatsch's book for me is that I was there from 2003 every year

at the Hoover Institution,

not knowing what was going on and those young people talking over there behind the railing for breakfast in the morning.

Well, Keech has some of it.

And one of it was Sam Altman inventing himself.

And by inventing himself, he had an idea with his friends that he met at Stanford.

The original idea was something about, this is before the iPhone, there was a clamshell phone,

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