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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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Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.
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When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.
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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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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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Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.
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In the early stage of a startup, hiring senior people is usually a mistake. You just want people that get stuff done.
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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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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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The second part of how to hire: try not to.
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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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Obsess about the quality of the product.
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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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Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.
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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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... 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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You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.
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You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.
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In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.
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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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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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