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Shivraj Jadeja
Shivraj Jadeja

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Sometimes the Best Ideas Are the Ones People Doubt

One idea that stood out to me from Sam Altman’s Startup School talk was that creativity in entrepreneurship is not always about inventing something completely new. Sometimes it is about having enough confidence to work on an idea that other people think is wrong or unrealistic.

I agree with that. A good example from the talk was AI itself. Altman explained that years ago, only a small group of people seriously believed AGI was possible, while many others thought the idea would fail or even hurt progress in AI. Instead of waiting for everyone to agree, that small group kept working on it. Sam Altman_ 10 Takeaways From S…

That stood out to me because founders probably will not always get positive feedback at the beginning. The important part is having a real reason to believe in the idea, testing it, and being willing to improve it instead of giving up just because other people doubt it.

I also found it interesting that AI is making it much faster and cheaper to build ideas today, which gives entrepreneurs more chances to experiment with things that may have been too difficult before.

Media: Sam Altman: 10 Takeaways From Startup School 2026
https://www.the-ai-corner.com/p/sam-altman-startup-school-2026

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