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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
Entrepreneur
Chicago
Illinois
Samuel H. Altman
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Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.
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I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.
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Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.
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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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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.
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Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.
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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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No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.
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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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... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.
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If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.
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Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.
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Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.
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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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Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.
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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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You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.
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If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.
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If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.
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