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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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Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.
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You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.
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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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Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.
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The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.
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No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.
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You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.
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The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.
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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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If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.
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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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Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.
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Obsess about the quality of the product.
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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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A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.
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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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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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So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.
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The best people know that they should join a rocketship.
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