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... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.

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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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The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.
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The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.
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So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.
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... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.
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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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Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.
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Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.
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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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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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In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.
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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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Every company has a rocky beginning.
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So you should always stay on top of people's vesting schedules.
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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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Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own PR.
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Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.
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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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