Ask HN: What does Sam Altman do best?

I have not paid much attention to Altman before the shocking sequences of events recently.

I did not know much about the structure of OpenAI eiter.

I have followed what they have made available to the public and that has been quite interesting.

I have certainly noticed Altman being a most popular figure in the media (or often invited to speak at least) and an all-around genius.

When it comes to cutting edge research and development of AI I think that involves a hell of a lot of math that I probably could not understand.

I have a lot of PhD and post doc level research.

Being naive I figured the entire C* stack at OpenAI held PhDs in related fields.

I was thus surprised to read that Altman and another co-founder both dropped out of prestigious university early on in their degrees.

I discovered that the CTO had a bachelors but seemed to have started her career in quite a different field.

Now a -LOT- of founders are the same way. Thinking about it know if to onder if not the majority of founders are.

I can follow what Bill Gates and Woziak did. Though clearly I lack their genius.

I am not able to follow AI research papers at all.

Altman must have hired a lot of outstanding people to execute his vision. and is that the most important quality he brings to OpenAI? A vision and a drive and ability to execute?

Or is he a self-thought genius who can get into the trenches at a theoretic level?

Or am I overcomplicating the skills and education needed to produce GPT (among other things)