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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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Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
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In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.
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One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.
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... the thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.
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Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.
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The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment.
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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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You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.
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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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Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.
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Founders need to figure out what the message of the company is going to be.
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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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In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.
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These all sounded really bad, but they turned out to be good. If they had sounded really good, there would have been too many people working on them.
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One thing that often disrupts momentum and really shouldn't is competitors.
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So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.
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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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Before product/market fit, your only job that matters is to build a great product.
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What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.
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Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.
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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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