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BY Jude Cramer

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Sam Altman knows how to play the startup game. Beyond co-founding two companies—the social network Loopt, at just 20 years old, and OpenAI, which now stands as one of the highest valued unicorns of all time—he’s helped launch dozens of other startups as the former president of Y Combinator.

That background has led Altman to his view of the current startup landscape: “chronic disappointment.”

In an interview with Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Altman sounded off on how he feels prospective founders are falling behind in the era of artificial intelligence.

“My chronic disappointment with MBA students is that they always want to go do the thing that was cool five years ago rather than try something new,” he said.…