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Employees will only add more value over time.

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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
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Chicago
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Samuel H. Altman
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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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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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For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.
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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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Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage.
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The natural state of a start-up is to die most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.
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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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Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.
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Every company has a rocky beginning.
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