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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 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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You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.
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Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?
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If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.
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... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.
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The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.
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You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.
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The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm.
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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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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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A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.
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... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.
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You don't get to make their decisions but you do get to choose the decision makers.
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The best people know that they should join a rocketship.
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Every company has a rocky beginning.
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For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.
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You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.
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In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.
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You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.
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