Billionaire OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a message for new Gen Z graduates struggling to gain a footing in the entry-level job market: ‘This is probably the most exciting time to be starting out one’s career, maybe ever.’ But as the class of 2025 scrolls through LinkedIn for new postings, they’re facing a tougher reality—AI has stolen most of their opportunities to kickstart their 9-to-5s.

In what seems like a dumpster fire of an early career job market for Gen Z —filled with ghost jobs and AI agents — Sam Altman said it’s actually “the most exciting time to be starting out one’s career, maybe ever.”

“I think that [a] 25-year-old in Mumbai can probably do more than any previous 25-year-old in history could,” Altman said in an episode of People by WTF podcast with Nik

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