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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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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
Entrepreneur
Chicago
Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
Samuel Altman
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You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.
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Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.
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No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.
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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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... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.
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The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.
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... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you you know fires in a day.
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Before product/market fit, your only job that matters is to build a great product.
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In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.
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Some day everyone will find out everyone else's comp, if it's all over the place, it will be a complete meltdown disaster
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Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it.
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Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.
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