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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
Entrepreneur
Chicago
Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
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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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Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.
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You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.
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Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.
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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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Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.
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Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.
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A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.
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Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.
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Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.
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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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One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.
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One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.
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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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The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment.
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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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Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.
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... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.
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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 don't need to make the structure complicated, in fact you shouldn't. All you need is for every employee to know who their manager is.
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