☝ Top 20 Quotes Of Sam Altman - Medvedev [zK3ilk9Vwak]

Top 20 Quotes of Sam Altman:

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

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

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

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long sporting life 10k route term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

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

Founders need to figure out what the message of the company is going to be.

Obsess about the quality of the product.

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

A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.

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

The natural state of a start-up is to sam merrill die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

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

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

The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.

I prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing one.

Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

The best people know that they should join a rocketship.

In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect.

What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution-and you can't outsource this.

Wait to start a startup until you come up with an idea that you feel compelled to explore.

Author: Sam Altman

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Life: b. April 22, 1985

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