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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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Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed
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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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If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.
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These all sounded really bad, but they turned out to be good. If they had sounded really good, there would have been too many people working on them.
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Most things are not as risky as they seem.
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I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.
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AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.
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Obsess about the quality of the product.
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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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... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.
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Employees will only add more value over time.
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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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Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.
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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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A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.
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You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.
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So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.
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Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own PR.
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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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Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.
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