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You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.

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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
Entrepreneur
Chicago
Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
Samuel Altman
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You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.
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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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You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.
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In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.
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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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One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.
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If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.
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So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.
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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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The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment.
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... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have.
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The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm.
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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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A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.
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The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.
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So you should always stay on top of people's vesting schedules.
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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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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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Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.
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