{"id":45695,"date":"2026-02-18T11:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/jake-paul-says-sam-altman-taught-him-the-value-of-a-15-minute-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:33:21","slug":"jake-paul-says-sam-altman-taught-him-the-value-of-a-15-minute-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/jake-paul-says-sam-altman-taught-him-the-value-of-a-15-minute-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul says Sam Altman taught him the value of a 15-minute meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69948c59d3c7faef0ece60c0?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Sam Altman and Jake Paul are pictured.\"\/><figcaption>Jake Paul said he bonded with Sam Altman over a love of &quot;fast cars.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Mandel Ngan\/AFP\/Getty Images; Gerrit van Keulen\/Soccrates\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Jake Paul said that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman taught him to be &quot;hella productive&quot; with 15-minute meetings.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Time is the most valuable thing, and it&#039;s the only reason you can&#039;t accomplish more,&quot; Paul said on &quot;Sourcery.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Paul said that he met Altman at President Donald Trump&#039;s inauguration. His fund later invested in OpenAI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jake Paul was a firebrand YouTuber. Then he was an NFT merchant, and a betting site operator. Now, Paul is a professional boxer \u2014 and venture capitalist. And he&#039;s learning from one of the biggest names in tech.<\/p>\n<p>On &quot;Sourcery,&quot; Paul said that he met OpenAI CEO Sam Altman while sitting next to each other at President Donald Trump&#039;s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Sam likes fast cars, and so do I,&quot; Paul said. &quot;So, we just started talking about cars, and then we got along, and that was really it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Paul&#039;s Anti Fund \u2014 which is also led by his brother Logan and longtime founder Geoffrey Woo \u2014 invested in OpenAI in 2025. The biggest lesson he&#039;s learned from Altman is efficiency, Paul said.<\/p>\n<p>He described the quick-and-tidy meetings that Altman runs. The OpenAI CEO &quot;walks into the room, sits down, let&#039;s get right into the conversation, boom boom boom,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In 15 minutes alone, Altman was &quot;hella productive,&quot; Paul said. Then, Altman can go on to his next meeting and do it all over again.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#039;ll do hourlong meetings or calls and just waste time,&quot; Paul said. &quot;I think that was inspiring because time is the most valuable thing, and it&#039;s the only reason you can&#039;t accomplish more.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Altman has long opted for the 15-minute meeting. In a 2018 blog post, he wrote that the ideal meeting time is either around 15 to 20 minutes or 2 hours, but &quot;the default of 1 hour is usually wrong.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Paul has worked closely with OpenAI in the last year, beyond participating in fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>Remember all of those strange Paul memes running around the internet during the Sora 2 launch? They were by design. Paul said he helped consult on the project and was one of the first to sign over his name, image, and likeness.<\/p>\n<p>Woo also appeared on the podcast, and spelled out the thinking behind those far-out memes (such as an AI Paul declaring he was gay). &quot;It was not something that was like, &#039;Hey, Jake Paul is now gay.&#039; Jake was thoughtful in terms of why we were part of that launch.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Woo also said that he had formed a good friendship with Altman and Mark Chen, OpenAI&#039;s chief research officer.<\/p>\n<p>For the Sora 2 launch, Paul said that he had &quot;regular calls&quot; with OpenAI and offered &quot;super detailed consulting.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Me and my brother have however many years combined of social media experience since the beginning,&quot; Paul said. &quot;We were there when the term &#039;influencer&#039; was even made up.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>This background, Paul said, helped him give good advice on what OpenAI&#039;s social media-like interface should look like. He advised on both what creators and audiences wanted, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Anti Fund closed its $30 million fund in September. Other investments include defense tech startup Anduril and prediction market Polymarket.<\/p>\n<p>Woo said their ties to OpenAI remain strong. &quot;We were just at OpenAI for three hours looking for other ways to collaborate,&quot; he said. &quot;Things might be cooking.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Paul said he bonded with Sam Altman over a love of &quot;fast cars.&quot; Mandel Ngan\/AFP\/Getty Images; Gerrit van Keulen\/Soccrates\/Getty Images Jake Paul said that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman taught him to be &quot;hella productive&quot; with 15-minute meetings. &quot;Time is the most valuable thing, and it&#039;s the only reason you can&#039;t accomplish more,&quot; Paul said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}