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No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
Entrepreneur
Chicago
Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
Samuel Altman
Build
Smart
Choose
Stuff
Around
Matter
People

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In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.
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Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard...maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things.
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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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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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It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.
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Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.
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Before product/market fit, your only job that matters is to build a great product.
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Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.
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Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.
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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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For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.
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Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.
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You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.
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You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.
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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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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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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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Startups are very hard no matter what you do you may as well go after a big opportunity.
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Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.
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