Sam Altman Quotes - Page 5

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

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  Want

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• The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.

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  Team, Track, Records

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• You never want to be in a place where an employee has vested 3 out of the 4 years of stock and they start thinking about leaving.

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  Thinking, Years, Leaving

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• You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.

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  Hobbies

  "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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• You should always know how you're doing against your metrics. You should always have a weekly review meeting every week.

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  Metrics, Week, Should

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• It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

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  Moving, Quality, Easy

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• Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.

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  Thinking, Keys, Goal

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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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• The second part of how to hire: try not to.

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  Team, Trying

  "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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• Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

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  Team, Thinking, Employee

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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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• Growth solves (nearly) all problems

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  Growth, Problem, Solve

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• Every company has a rocky beginning.

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  Company

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• You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.

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  Moving, People, Quality

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

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  Ideas, Firsts, Should

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

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  Team, Successful, Done

  "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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• 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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• 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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