Logan Kilpatrick
Head of Developer Relations at OpenAI
Logan Kilpatrick leads developer relations at OpenAI, supporting developers building on OpenAI APIs and ChatGPT, previously a machine learning engineer at Apple and NASA open source policy advisor.
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Episode Summary
Logan Kilpatrick shares an inside view of OpenAI's culture and shipping velocity, discusses where the biggest opportunities lie for startups building on AI APIs, and explains why vertical, domain-specific applications will thrive while general-purpose assistants will struggle to compete with ChatGPT. He emphasizes hiring for high agency and urgency as the keys to building great teams.
Leadership Principles
- → Hire for high agency and urgency above all other traits
- → Build vertical and domain-specific AI applications rather than competing with general-purpose assistants
- → The best AI products will push beyond the chat paradigm into new interfaces
Notable Quotes
"Finding people who are high agency and work with urgency, if I was hiring five people today, those are the top two characteristics I would look for."
— On what OpenAI looks for when hiring
"We're not going to launch an AI sales agent. That's just not what we're building towards. Companies who have domain specific knowledge can leverage our models."
— Advising startups on where to build products without competing with OpenAI
"2024 is the year of multimodal AI, but it's also the year that people really push the boundaries of some of these new UX paradigms around AI."
— On the future of AI interfaces beyond chat
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