Uncapped #46 | Brad Lightcap from OpenAI

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Brad Lightcap serves as OpenAI's COO, overseeing its business, operations, and strategic partnerships across Research, Applied AI, and go-to-market. He also manages the OpenAI Startup Fund. Previously, Brad was part of Y Combinator Continuity and led finance and operations initiatives at Dropbox. We discussed the shift from chat-based AI to agents that can take action, and what that means for software and the broader economy. We also covered how these systems are being built and deployed, how tools like Codex are changing how work gets done, and what this next phase of AI unlocks for startups and incumbents alike. --- Timestamps: (0:00) Intro (0:39) The early days of OpenAI (3:47) A…