Balaji wasn’t your archetypal Silicon Valley visionary. He wasn’t a grizzled founder with a decade of battle scars or a loud-mouthed tech bro proclaiming himself the savior of humanity. He was just a kid, albeit a remarkably sharp one, who started working at OpenAI in 2020, fresh out of the University of California, Berkeley.
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