OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the Invest Like The Best podcast that the most valuable investment opportunities are rarely the ones that look popular at the time, noting “the very best companies, the very best investment opportunities are almost never the ones that look really popular.” He added that following trends can yield decent returns, but “to do spectacularly well, you kind of almost always have to do things that are not what everybody else is doing.” Altman credited Paul Graham, cofounder of Y Combinator, with teaching him that startup investing is like being a flight instructor, where hands-on guidance matters more than lectures. He also recalled how OpenAI scrambled after realizing the exponential improvement of GPT-4, urgently seeking compute resources from cloud providers, chip fabs, and energy firms; most said no, but “all you need is one or two yeses.” Separately, Altman shared a parenting tip on X, suggesting parents use ChatGPT Work to generate daily personalized podcasts for their children’s morning drive to school, linking family calendars and kids’ interests. His post drew widespread skepticism, including a viral reply from Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls, who asked, “What if you just talked to your children?” Altman’s comment gathered some 4,000 reposts and 12,600 likes, while Hirsch’s reply received over 18,000 reposts and 197,000 likes.