Sam Altman Quotes - Page 5

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

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  Team, Proud, Should

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• Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.

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  Thinking, Long, Advantage

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• The thirteenth search engine- and without all the features of a web portal, most people thought that was pointless.

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  People, Portal, Search Engine

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• Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.

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  Focus, Growth, Momentum

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• Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard...maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things.

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  Hard Work, Enough, Hard

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• Before product/market fit, your only job that matters is to build a great product.

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  Jobs, Matter, Fit

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• You want to think about what is the path for my first 10 or 15 employees going to be as the company grows.

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  Thinking, Firsts, Want

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• The idea should come first, the startup should come second.

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  Ideas, Firsts, Should

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• Facebook has this famous poster that says move fast and break things. But at the same time they manage to be obsessed with quality.

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  Moving, Quality, Posters

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• I myself used to believe ideas didn't matter that much, but I'm very sure that's wrong now.

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  Believe, Ideas, Matter

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• Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.

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  Secret, Growth, Three

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• 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.

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  Team, Responsibility, Credit

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• ... 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.

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  Team, Firsts, Employee

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• It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it.

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  Love You, Products, Users

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• Share results (financial and key metrics) with the company every month.

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  Keys, Metrics, Months

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• You can basically change everything in a startup but the market.

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

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  Regret, Team, Compromise

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• If you want something in a deal, just ask for it.

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  Want Something, Deals, Ifs

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• You can't be focussed without really great communication

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  Communication, Really Great, Great Communication

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• In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place.

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  People, Founders, Compensation

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• Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.

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  Trying, Important, Connections

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• You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.

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  Monopoly

  "Lecture 1: How to Start a Startup". Sam Altman's lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. 2014.

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• The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.

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  Giving Up, Giving, Levels

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• You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.

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  Crazy, Ideas, Want

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• ... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you; you know fires in a day.

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  Fire, Everyday, Knows

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