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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
Resourceful
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I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.
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We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.
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The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.
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Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.
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The second part of how to hire: try not to.
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It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.
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Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place.
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Every company has a rocky beginning.
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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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Obsess about the quality of the product.
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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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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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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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You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.
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... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.
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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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Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.
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The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.
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You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.
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