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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
Smart
Choose
Stuff
Around
Matter
People
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The natural state of a start-up is to die most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.
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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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... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.
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Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.
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The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.
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1 of the hardest parts about being a founder, is that there are a 100 important things competing for your attention each day.
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The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.
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... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.
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Employees will only add more value over time.
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The best people know that they should join a rocketship.
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If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.
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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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Obsess about the quality of the product.
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Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.
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Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.
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Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.
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A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.
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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.
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