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If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.

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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
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Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
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As you grow, it feels hopelessly corporate but it really is worth putting in place these compensation bands.
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... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.
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You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.
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AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.
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These all sounded really bad, but they turned out to be good. If they had sounded really good, there would have been too many people working on them.
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If you want something in a deal, just ask for it.
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I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.
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A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.
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You can basically change everything in a startup but the market.
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You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.
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1 of the hardest parts about being a founder, is that there are a 100 important things competing for your attention each day.
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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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