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The path was almost simple, Graham taught. Bootstrap your company, start with a minimum viable product, and optimize it over time. Work in a tight bubble, because it was better to have ten people love what you made than thousands liking it. And don’t be afraid to bend the rules along the way. In fact, why not rewrite society itself?
Hassabis would later say that games were like a gym for the mind and chess was the ultimate workout. Just as poker taught Sam Altman about psychology and business, chess taught Hassabis how to strategize by starting with the end in mind. You visualized a goal and worked backward.
“Solve intelligence and use it to solve everything else.”
Silicon Valley tended to measure success with two metrics: how much money you had raised from investors, and how many people you had hired.
