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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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Chicago
Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.
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You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.
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If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.
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You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying.
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You don't need to make the structure complicated, in fact you shouldn't. All you need is for every employee to know who their manager is.
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You don't get to make their decisions but you do get to choose the decision makers.
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Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.
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Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.
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Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?
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If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.
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The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.
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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 need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.
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The natural state of a start-up is to die most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.
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So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.
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We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.
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Startups are very hard no matter what you do you may as well go after a big opportunity.
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Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.
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You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.
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