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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
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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 think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.
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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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What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.
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Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.
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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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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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I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.
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Employees will only add more value over time.
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In addition to relentlessly resourceful, you want a tough and a calm cofounder.
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Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard...maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things.
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Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.
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Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.
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One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.
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Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.
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The second part of how to hire: try not to.
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If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.
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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 need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.
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One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.
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