“Andrew is literally the only person that both Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have worked for. He is going to come up with things that nobody else can come up with.” “We don’t know exactly what those inventions and innovations will look like yet, but I’m highly confident that he is uniquely positioned to come up with things that we wouldn’t have come up with on our own.” That’s Greg Hart, Coursera’s CEO, on the July 29 earnings call, the first one since the Udemy merger, explaining why Coursera p

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