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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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It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.
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You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.
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The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.
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The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
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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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A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.
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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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Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?
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I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.
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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.
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Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.
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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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You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.
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Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.
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Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.
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Before product/market fit, your only job that matters is to build a great product.
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Every company has a rocky beginning.
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The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.
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When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.
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It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.
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