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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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Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.
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The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment.
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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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You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.
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Before product/market fit, your only job that matters is to build a great product.
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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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So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.
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... how much time you should be spending on hiring? The answer is 0 or 25 percent.
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Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage.
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... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.
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In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.
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You can basically change everything in a startup but the market.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.
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Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.
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In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.
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Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.
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... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.
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You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.
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Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.
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