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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
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Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
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You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.
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... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have.
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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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You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.
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You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.
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Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.
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... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.
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Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage.
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AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.
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You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.
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You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.
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I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.
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... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.
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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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Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.
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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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Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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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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