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You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.

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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
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Samuel H. Altman
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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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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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A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.
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In addition to relentlessly resourceful, you want a tough and a calm cofounder.
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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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Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.
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You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.
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You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.
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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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The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment.
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The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.
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You can basically change everything in a startup but the market.
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The most important thing is that there is clear reporting structure and everyone knows what it is.
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If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.
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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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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.
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If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.
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The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.
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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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Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.
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