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Let Sam Altman Grade Your Business Idea 📚
Sam Altman wrote a free startup bible. Here's how to turn it into a brutally honest cofounder that pressure-tests your idea and tells you exactly where you're.
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Sam Altman — Startup Playbook (playbook.samaltman.com)Sam Altman, the guy who runs OpenAI, wrote a free guide called the Startup Playbook. It's basically everything they teach founders at Y Combinator, the startup accelerator behind Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe. And it's all in one free guide.
The problem? Most people read it once and forget all of it. So here's what I'd do instead: let AI hold your idea up against it and tell you the truth.
Drop In Three Things
Open Claude or ChatGPT and give it three things:
A paragraph is plenty, what it is, who it's for, and how it makes money.
From there, it pressure-tests your idea against the playbook and tells you where you're weak and what to do first.
The Pressure-Test Prompt
Paste this in right after the playbook and your idea:
The prompt
The Real Win
Altman's most famous line is that 99% of startups die from suicide, not murder. It's almost never the competition, it's you. The whole point of this is to let AI be the honest cofounder who catches that quiet self-sabotage before you sink a year into the wrong thing.
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