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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• 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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• 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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• Obsess about the quality of the product.

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  Quality, Products

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

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  Team, People, Should

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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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• 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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• 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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• If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.

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  Team, Real, Work Out

  "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.

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• For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.

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  Growing, Ships, Software

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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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  Opportunity, May, Matter

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• One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.

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  Execution, Speed, Relentless

  "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.

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• Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.

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  Reality, Choices, Balance

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• Some day everyone will find out everyone else's comp, if it's all over the place, it will be a complete meltdown disaster

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  Disaster, Meltdowns, Ifs

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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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  Care, Want, Wrong Things

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• Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.

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  Goal, Given, Founders

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• The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won.

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  College, Students, Social Network

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