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You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.

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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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Employees will only add more value over time.
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What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.
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Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.
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In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.
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The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
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A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.
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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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Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.
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The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.
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For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.
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You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.
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Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.
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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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If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.
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Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.
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Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.
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... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.
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Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.
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Some day everyone will find out everyone else's comp, if it's all over the place, it will be a complete meltdown disaster
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