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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
Entrepreneur
Chicago
Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
Samuel Altman
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Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.
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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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Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.
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When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.
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Growth solves (nearly) all problems
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The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.
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For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.
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The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.
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The best people know that they should join a rocketship.
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In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups.
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For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.
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You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.
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If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.
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AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.
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You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.
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Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.
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Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own PR.
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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 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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Employees will only add more value over time.
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