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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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The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
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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 need to figure out what the message of the company is going to be.
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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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... 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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Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.
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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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Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.
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