Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"
Sam Altman says AI coding agents make this the best time ever to start a company
“I think this is going to be the best time in the world to do a startup”— Sam Altman
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, speaking at YC Startup School, argued that AI coding agents have collapsed software development time from months to minutes, fundamentally expanding what startups can attempt. He framed AGI as imminent and positioned the current moment as historically unprecedented for founders. The signal is Altman publicly amplifying a narrative that AI eliminates startup execution barriers, which reinforces OpenAI's own product positioning around agentic coding tools.