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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
Entrepreneur
Chicago
Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
Samuel Altman
Growth
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The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.
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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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Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.
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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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Startups are very hard no matter what you do you may as well go after a big opportunity.
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Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?
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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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In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups.
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You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.
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You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.
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You think you have this great idea that everyone's going to come join, but that's not how it works.
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You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.
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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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You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.
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A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.
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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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So you should always stay on top of people's vesting schedules.
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... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.
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Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.
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