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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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Some day everyone will find out everyone else's comp, if it's all over the place, it will be a complete meltdown disaster
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As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.
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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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If you want something in a deal, just ask for it.
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Most things are not as risky as they seem.
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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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Obsess about the quality of the product.
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To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.
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So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.
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You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.
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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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You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.
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No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.
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... how much time you should be spending on hiring? The answer is 0 or 25 percent.
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You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.
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If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.
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Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.
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If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.
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... the thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.
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