EP 26 Will Depue: The 20 Year Old Dropout Founder That Works For OpenAI
Description
Omar (@omarwasm) and Vishal (@vishalkolr) sit down with Will Depue, (@willdepue), previous founder of DeepResearch and applied research resident at OpenAI, to talk about living in Argentina, dropping out of college, building a computer in Figma, the truth about burnout, why he doesn't focus on Twitter growth, watching Dune 5 times, how to get started building anything, and much more....
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:18 - Working At OpenAI
2:39 - Building In High School
8:15 - Founder Journey
24:24 - Growing On Twitter
29:54 - The Truth About Burnout
34:53 - How To Decide What To Work On
37:31 - Building A Computer In Figma
40:21 - The Alexandria Project
52:17 - Explore, Don't Commit
1:05:32 - Reading Tweets
1:17:43 - Favorite Project
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