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Sam Altman Inspirational Quotes (143)

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In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.
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When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.
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If someone is getting every decision wrong, that's when you need to act, and at that point it'll be painfully aware to everyone.
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Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.
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One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.
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Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.
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Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.
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We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.
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One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.
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The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.
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As you grow, it feels hopelessly corporate but it really is worth putting in place these compensation bands.
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You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.
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It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.
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The natural state of a start-up is to die most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.
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When it comes to starting startups, in many ways, it's easier to start a hard startup than an easy startup.
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So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.
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... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.
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What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.
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In the early stage of a startup, hiring senior people is usually a mistake. You just want people that get stuff done.
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You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.
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The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.
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You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.
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In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.
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Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.
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