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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
Entrepreneur
Chicago
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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Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own PR.
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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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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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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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One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.
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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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Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.
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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 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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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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Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.
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The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm.
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You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.
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So you should always stay on top of people's vesting schedules.
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You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.
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Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.
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The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.
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In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups.
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