Sam Altman tracked how quickly Y Combinator founders responded to his daily emails and texts. During that time, he kept notes on how quickly founders responded to his daily emails and texts, according to New York Magazine's Elizabeth Weil. Neither Altman's blog post nor the New York Magazine profile specified Altman's expected response times to texts and emails. Altman responded that he had written a program to look at how quickly Y Combinator's best founders answer his emails versus the "bad" ones. It was a difference of minutes versus days on average response times," Altman said at the time.

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Persons: Sam Altman, —, Sam Altman —, Altman, New York Magazine's Elizabeth Weil, Tyler Cowen, Tyler, Y, OpenAI Organizations: New York Magazine, Service, OpenAI, Stanford University, York Magazine Locations: New York