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The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.

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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
Entrepreneur
Chicago
Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
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No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.
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... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.
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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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So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.
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Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.
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In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.
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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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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.
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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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A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.
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... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.
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When it comes to starting startups, in many ways, it's easier to start a hard startup than an easy startup.
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Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.
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To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.
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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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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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