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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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At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.
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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.
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... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you you know fires in a day.
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Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.
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You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.
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Founders need to figure out what the message of the company is going to be.
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The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.
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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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... 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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You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.
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You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.
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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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No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.
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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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Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.
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... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.
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If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.
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The best people know that they should join a rocketship.
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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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