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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
Employee
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You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.
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In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups.
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Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.
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You don't need to make the structure complicated, in fact you shouldn't. All you need is for every employee to know who their manager is.
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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 way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.
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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 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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At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.
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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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You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.
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Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.
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The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.
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Employees will only add more value over time.
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The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.
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So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.
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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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Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.
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Obsess about the quality of the product.
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