Sam Altman Quotes - Page 3

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• Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.

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  Ideas, Important, Needs

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• If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.

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  Complicated, Sentences, Ifs

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• The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.

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  Team, People, Source

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• 1 of the hardest parts about being a founder, is that there are a 100 important things competing for your attention each day.

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  Important, Attention, Each Day

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

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  Team, Might, Firsts

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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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• At YC we have this public phrase, and it's relentlessly resourceful.

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  Team, Phrases, Resourceful

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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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• One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.

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  Trying, Credit, Starting

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• The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.

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  Needs, Machines, Execution

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• When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.

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  Failing, Structure, Fine

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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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• 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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• Good startups usually take 10 years.

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  Years

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• Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.

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  Ideas, Execution, Terrible

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• Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is... simply writing down how you do things and why you do things.

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  Writing, Two, Wish

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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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• Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

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  Firsts, Scared, Starting

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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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• As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company.

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  Long, Beats, Bigger

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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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