Speaking with host Molly O\u2019Shea on the Sourcery<\/em> podcast, Paul explained how he immediately bonded with the OpenAI CEO over a shared interest in \u201cfast cars\u201d after they were seated next to each other at Trump\u2019s inauguration last January.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe just started talking about cars and then we kind of just got along and that was really it,\u201d he said on the podcast.<\/p>\n The meeting with Altman may have been incidental, but it has already sparked real results, including an investment in OpenAI and a collaboration on the company\u2019s video generation app Sora2. Paul said he consulted with OpenAI ahead of the app\u2019s September launch, and he became one of the first celebrities to allow his name, image, and likeness to be used in the app. Upon release, Sora2 users quickly jumped to feature Paul in AI-generated videos that featured him as a robber, a makeup artist, and other personas, helping propel the app to No. 1 on the App Store in the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n Along the way, Paul said the most important lesson he learned from Altman had nothing to do with AI, but rather how to conduct efficient meetings.<\/p>\n As soon as Altman walks into a meeting, he gets down to business with a \u201cboom, boom, boom\u201d approach of assigning tasks and approving ideas that he said fills every minute of his characteristically short meetings.<\/p>\n \u201cNo wasted time, 15 minutes. He was hella productive, and then we\u2019ll go to the next meeting,\u201d Paul said.<\/p>\n Altman has long been outspoken about productivity on his personal blog. In a 2018 post, Altman wrote he generally likes to avoid meetings and conferences because he finds \u201cthe time cost to be huge.\u201d<\/p>\n When he has to attend a meeting, he likes to schedule them in the afternoon, outside of his productive morning hours. Instead of opting for the default one-hour meeting time, which he said leads to time-wasting, he schedules his meetings for either between 15-20 minutes or two hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n Paul said Altman\u2019s preference for brevity was eye-opening for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI think that was inspiring because time is the most valuable thing and it\u2019s the only reason that you can\u2019t accomplish more essentially,\u201d Paul said.<\/p>\n Al Drago\u2014Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n Altman\u2019s tips on efficiency may be especially relevant for Paul, who has leveraged his YouTube persona into a professional boxing career and a growing portfolio of business ventures. <\/p>\n He makes a good portion of his money from the top-tier boxing matches he has organized and participated in in recent years. His 2024 fight with retired professional boxer Mike Tyson, drew in 108 million live global viewers, according to Netflix. Another 33 million viewers reportedly tuned into his December fight with former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, in which Joshua knocked him out with a jaw-breaking punch in the sixth round.<\/p>\n Paul also cofounded Anti Fund, a venture capital firm with $65 million under management, with venture capitalist Geoffrey Woo in 2021 and has already invested in OpenAI, defense tech startup Anduril, and prediction market Polymarket.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the 29-year-old is still one of the highest-grossing YouTubers on the planet, coming in third on Forbes\u2019 Top Creators List for 2025, earning an estimated $50 million through June of last year.<\/p>\n And yet, despite all the ventures he juggles, Paul told the Sourcery<\/em> podcast his work, while sometimes tedious, is still something he looks forward to.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt can be monotonous, the daily grind,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cSo you got to find the fun. Enjoying it, I think that\u2019s success.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #Jake #Paul #OpenAIs #Sam #Altman #gave #crash #efficiency #lean #15minute #meetings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A chance meeting at President … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[13549,4845,8502,148,4580,2813,1275,13065,13548,3777,703,11083,1299,4844,2787,930,1280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2194347752.jpg?format=webp&w=1440&q=100\"\/)
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