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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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Startups are very hard no matter what you do you may as well go after a big opportunity.
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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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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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Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.
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Employees will only add more value over time.
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... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you you know fires in a day.
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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 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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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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No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.
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You can basically change everything in a startup but the market.
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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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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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... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.
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You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.
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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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Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.
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You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.
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You don't get to make their decisions but you do get to choose the decision makers.
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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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