Sam Altman Quotes

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• No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

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  Smart, People, Matter

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• In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

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  Years, Willing, Ten

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• Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

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  Keys, Two, Done

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• The best people know that they should join a rocketship.

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  Team, People, Should

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

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  Team, Ideas, Long

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

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• A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.

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  Communication, Focus, Different

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• If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

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  Needs, Building Something, Realizing

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• Most things are not as risky as they seem.

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  Seems

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• Obsess about the quality of the product.

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  Quality, Products

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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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• Why couldn't it have been done 2 years ago, and why will 2 years in the future be too late?

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  Years, Too Late, Done

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• Good startups usually take 10 years.

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  Years

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• You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.

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  Want

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• Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

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  Talking, Decision, Never Quit

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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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• Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.

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  Team, Writing, Promise

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• Study the unusually successful people you know, and you will find them imbued with enthusiasm for their work which is contagious. Not only are they themselves excited about what they are doing, but they also get you excited

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  Successful, People, Enthusiasm

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

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  Team, Thinking, Giving

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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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• If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

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  Feet, Spirals, Pedals

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• I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.

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  Team, Believe, Fighting

  "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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• 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 way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.

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  Way, Wells, Company

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• Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture.

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  Culture, Founders

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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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