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The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.

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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
Entrepreneur
Chicago
Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
Samuel Altman
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... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.
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If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.
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If someone is getting every decision wrong, that's when you need to act, and at that point it'll be painfully aware to everyone.
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I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.
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You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.
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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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... 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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A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.
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No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.
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Every company has a rocky beginning.
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Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.
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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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One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.
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If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.
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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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The best people know that they should join a rocketship.
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