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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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Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
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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 have to let your team get all the credit for all the good stuff that happens, and you take responsibility for the bad stuff.
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Most things are not as risky as they seem.
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I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.
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No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.
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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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In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.
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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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... 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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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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You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.
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You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.
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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.
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The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.
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The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.
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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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Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.
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Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.
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