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Most things are not as risky as they seem.

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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
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Samuel H. Altman
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Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.
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Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.
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One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.
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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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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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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 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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In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.
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... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.
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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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Startups are very hard no matter what you do you may as well go after a big opportunity.
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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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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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