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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
Entrepreneur
Chicago
Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
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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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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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AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.
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You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.
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The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.
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Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.
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A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.
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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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Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.
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Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.
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1 of the hardest parts about being a founder, is that there are a 100 important things competing for your attention each day.
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The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.
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In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.
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Before product/market fit, your only job that matters is to build a great product.
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These all sounded really bad, but they turned out to be good. If they had sounded really good, there would have been too many people working on them.
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Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.
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You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.
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Most things are not as risky as they seem.
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The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.
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