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Sam Altman dropped out of Stanford to build an app almost nobody used — it still sold for $43.4 million

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Sam Altman dropped out of Stanford to build an app almost nobody used — it still sold for $43.4 million

Sam Altman dropped out of Stanford to build an app almost nobody used — it still sold for $43.4 million

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