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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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If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.
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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 way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.
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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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