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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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The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.
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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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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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If you want something in a deal, just ask for it.
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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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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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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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You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.
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You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.
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When it comes to starting startups, in many ways, it's easier to start a hard startup than an easy startup.
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Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.
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In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.
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So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing 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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Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.
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Most things are not as risky as they seem.
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As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.
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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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