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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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Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.
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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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In addition to relentlessly resourceful, you want a tough and a calm cofounder.
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The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.
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You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.
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The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.
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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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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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If someone is getting every decision wrong, that's when you need to act, and at that point it'll be painfully aware to everyone.
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You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.
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Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.
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Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.
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So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.
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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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Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.
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So you should always stay on top of people's vesting schedules.
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The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm.
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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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... 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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