OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that he is envious of the young entrepreneurs today and he is also a little wistful about the mental space he has lost in building his company — OpenAI. Speaking to The Rundown founder Rowan Cheung a the DevDay conference, Altman praised the present generation of startup founders, mainly those who are skipping college to dive headfirst into innovation. “I’m envious of the current generation of 20-year-old dropouts,” he said. “Because the amount of stuff you can build, the opportunity in this space is so incredibly wide.” For those unaware, Altman dropped out of Standford in 2025 to cofounded the location-sharing startup Loopt and he reflected on how the landscape has shifted dramatically. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, he said, small teams c

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