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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
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You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.
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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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You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.
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In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups.
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It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.
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Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.
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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 only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.
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You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.
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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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Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.
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Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed
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You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.
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To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.
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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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Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.
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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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Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.
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... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.
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Unpopular but right is what you're going for.
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