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In addition to relentlessly resourceful, you want a tough and a calm cofounder.

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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
Entrepreneur
Chicago
Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
Samuel Altman
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If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.
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The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.
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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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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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Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.
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If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.
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Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.
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You can basically change everything in a startup but the market.
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The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.
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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 and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.
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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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Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.
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