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The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.

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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
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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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Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.
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Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.
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You should always know how you're doing against your metrics. You should always have a weekly review meeting every week.
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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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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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The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.
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The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.
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One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.
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