Sam Altman Quotes - Page 3

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• To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.

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  Team, Years, People

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• What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.

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  Mean, Years, Long

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• I prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing one.

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  Growing, Bigs, Company

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• The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

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  Fate, Miracle, Natural

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• One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.

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  Way, Grows, Products

  Twitter post from Oct 06, 2014

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• ... how much time you should be spending on hiring? The answer is 0 or 25 percent.

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  Team, Answers, Should

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• A lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than they put on hiring. Don't do this.

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  Team, People, Treats

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• I care much more about the growth rate of the market than it's current size and I also care if there's any reason it's going to top out.

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  Growth, Care, Size

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• When it comes to starting startups, in many ways, it's easier to start a hard startup than an easy startup.

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  Way, Easy, Easier

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• Wait to start a startup until you come up with an idea that you feel compelled to explore.

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  Ideas, Waiting, Come Up

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• If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.

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  Successful, Ideas, Looks

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• Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.

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  Way, Missions, Company

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• Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.

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  Building, Suspicious, Customers

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• One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

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  Team, Underestimate, Founders

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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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  Boards, Used, Members

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• You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

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  Killers, Indecisiveness

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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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  Ideas, Perfect, Why Now

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• Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.

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  Team, Important, Company

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• You think you have this great idea that everyone's going to come join, but that's not how it works.

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  Team, Thinking, Ideas

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• You also really want to take the time to think about how the market is going to evolve.You need a market that's going to be big in 10 years.

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  Thinking, Years, Needs

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• If you can just learn to think about the market first, you will have a big leg up on most people starting startups.

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  Thinking, People, Legs

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• Founders need to figure out what the message of the company is going to be.

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  Messages, Needs, Figures

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• ... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.

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  Team, Two, Twenties

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• For early employees you want people that have somewhat of a risk-taking attitude.

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  Attitude, Team, People

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• You can win with the best product, the best price, or the best experience.

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  Winning, Best Experiences, You Can Win

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