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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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You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.
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Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.
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We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.
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If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.
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... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.
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Founders need to figure out what the message of the company is going to be.
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So you should always stay on top of people's vesting schedules.
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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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... 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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... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you you know fires in a day.
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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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Most things are not as risky as they seem.
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Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.
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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 thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.
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Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard...maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things.
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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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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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One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.
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No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.
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