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The best people know that they should join a rocketship.

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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
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Illinois
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Unpopular but right is what you're going for.
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Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it.
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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.
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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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You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.
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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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A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.
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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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One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.
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The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.
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As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.
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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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You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.
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You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.
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It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.
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In addition to relentlessly resourceful, you want a tough and a calm cofounder.
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... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.
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