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The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm.

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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
Entrepreneur
Chicago
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Samuel H. Altman
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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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You have to let your team get all the credit for all the good stuff that happens, and you take responsibility for the bad stuff.
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At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.
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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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The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.
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The most important thing is that there is clear reporting structure and everyone knows what it is.
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... how much time you should be spending on hiring? The answer is 0 or 25 percent.
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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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The second part of how to hire: try not to.
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Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.
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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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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 want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.
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I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.
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One thing that often disrupts momentum and really shouldn't is competitors.
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Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.
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