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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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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
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Samuel H. Altman
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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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When it comes to starting startups, in many ways, it's easier to start a hard startup than an easy startup.
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When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.
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So you should always stay on top of people's vesting schedules.
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The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.
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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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The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.
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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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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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Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.
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The best people know that they should join a rocketship.
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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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One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.
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If someone is getting every decision wrong, that's when you need to act, and at that point it'll be painfully aware to everyone.
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Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.
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In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.
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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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Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.
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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 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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