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Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place.
Sam Altman
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Sam Altman
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: April 22
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Samuel H. Altman
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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 have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.
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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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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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... 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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A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.
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... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.
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