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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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Employees will only add more value over time.
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You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.
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Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it.
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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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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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In addition to relentlessly resourceful, you want a tough and a calm cofounder.
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Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.
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You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.
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If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.
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One thing that often disrupts momentum and really shouldn't is competitors.
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Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.
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The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.
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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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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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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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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.
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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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The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.
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Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.
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