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Silicon Valley has a crisis of (over) confidence

By Greg Satell · Fast Company · 11/2/2026

From a young age, it was clear that Leo Aschenbrenner was a genius. Born in Berlin to a pair of doctors, he graduated from Columbia as valedictorian at the age of 19. After brief stints at FTX and OpenAI , he published a viral essay, Situational Awareness , that took Silicon Valley by storm and…

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