Sam Altman
Sam Altman
Samuel H. "Sam" Altmanis an American entrepreneur, programmer, venture capitalist and blogger. He is the president of Y Combinator and co-chairman of OpenAI...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
love people
A lot of people don't love their bank.
balance cannot community great learn truly
If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.
behind computer good reduction screens
The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
generate good sustained
The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
believe
I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.
beach dive europe island love scuba sit staying stuff summers
There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.
hire sake
Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.
companies money ought profitable round urge
One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.
calling certainly pick suppose
I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.
frugality
That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
answer bit hour instead less maybe missed morning sit spend stressed stressful taking unusual wonder
Maybe I am a bit unusual here, but I am less stressed if I have my phone with me. Because I can spend like an hour in the morning taking care of everything instead of I sit there and wonder what I missed or wonder what's happening. So it's way less stressful for me to just answer my phone.
feature
Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.
clearly describe
It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.