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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
Entrepreneur
Chicago
Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
Samuel Altman
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Growth

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In addition to relentlessly resourceful, you want a tough and a calm cofounder.
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Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.
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The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
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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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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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Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?
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Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.
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Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.
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Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.
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... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have.
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You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.
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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.
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The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.
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Unpopular but right is what you're going for.
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Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.
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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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Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.
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You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.
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The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.
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It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.
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