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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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The second part of how to hire: try not to.
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Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.
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Every company has a rocky beginning.
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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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A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.
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In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups.
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You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.
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In the early stage of a startup, hiring senior people is usually a mistake. You just want people that get stuff done.
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... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.
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Growth solves (nearly) all problems
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One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.
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Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.
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Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.
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At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.
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Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.
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One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.
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You should always know how you're doing against your metrics. You should always have a weekly review meeting every week.
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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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Obsess about the quality of the product.
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... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.
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