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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
Entrepreneur
Chicago
Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
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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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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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Startups are very hard no matter what you do you may as well go after a big opportunity.
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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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One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.
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If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.
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You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.
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Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.
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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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The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment.
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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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One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.
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A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.
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In the early stage of a startup, hiring senior people is usually a mistake. You just want people that get stuff done.
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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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Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it.
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One thing that often disrupts momentum and really shouldn't is competitors.
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Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.
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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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... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.
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