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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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The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.
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As you grow, it feels hopelessly corporate but it really is worth putting in place these compensation bands.
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You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.
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If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.
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Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?
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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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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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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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Growth solves (nearly) all problems
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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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You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.
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No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.
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A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.
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Unpopular but right is what you're going for.
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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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So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.
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A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.
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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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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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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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