Sam Altman Quotes About Team

Quotes about: Team

• No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Ideas, Long

  "There's Only One Way To Make Your Company Really Grow" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. December 04, 2013.

• If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.

  Sam Altman

  Regret, Team, Compromise

• Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Done, Made

• You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Animal, Able

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". Sam Altman's "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. 2014.

• 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.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Responsibility, Credit

• People that are really smart and that can learn new things can almost always find a role in the company as time goes on.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Smart, People

• It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Solo, Founders

• ... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Proud, Should

• ... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Firsts, Employee

• A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Firsts, Facts

• There are 3 things I look for when I hire people. Are they smart? Do they get things done? Do I want to spend a lot of time around them?

  Sam Altman

  Smart, Team, People

• You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.

  Sam Altman

  Team, People, Needs

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". Sam Altman's "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. 2014.

• I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Thinking, Firsts

• We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Founders, Equity

• We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Successful, Done

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

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

  Sam Altman

  Team, Two, Twenties

• ... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Small Numbers, Done

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

  Sam Altman

  Team, Underestimate, Founders

• If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Might, Firsts

• One of the pieces of advice that we give at YC is: try to work together on a project rather than just doing an interview.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Giving, Advice

• I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Thinking, Giving

• Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.

  Sam Altman

  Running, Team, Thinking

• A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn't won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Winning, Feel Good

• ... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Solo, Rate

• Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Small Numbers, Years

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