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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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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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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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One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.
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The second part of how to hire: try not to.
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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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Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.
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Every company has a rocky beginning.
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The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.
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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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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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Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.
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Growth solves (nearly) all problems
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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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If you want something in a deal, just ask for it.
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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 other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.
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Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.
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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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Startups are very hard no matter what you do you may as well go after a big opportunity.
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The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.
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