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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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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
Entrepreneur
Chicago
Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
Samuel Altman
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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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You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.
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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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Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.
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Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.
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