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
ambitious believe critically future people trend whatever worth
I believe whatever smart, ambitious people are working on will be the trend of the future. I do think that it's worth thinking critically about what the future will be.
believe people
Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
believe future good
I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
believe
I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.
believe causes fun money personally regretted saving spending spent though time travel
Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.
believe company early employee facebook join next opportunity
If you have the opportunity to go be an early employee at a company that's just going crazy, and you believe it's the next Facebook or Google, you should go join that company.
believe ideas matter
I myself used to believe ideas didn't matter that much, but I'm very sure that's wrong now.
believe innovation excellence
I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.
giving-up believe way
If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.
team believe fighting
I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.
consumers tap
With Loopt Star, consumers get to tap interactive rewards wherever they may be.
time
The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
companies facebook good google hit incredible job observed public standing terrible
Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
cool fund
The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.