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
business critical figuring five hard hundred ignoring matters rest running
The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.
believe ideas matter
I myself used to believe ideas didn't matter that much, but I'm very sure that's wrong now.
years ideas matter
It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.
team aptitude matter
For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.
team roles matter
Experience matters for some roles and not others.
thinking matter company
The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment.
jobs matter fit
Before product/market fit, your only job that matters is to build a great product.
pain matter way
There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.
opportunity may matter
Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.
smart people matter
No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.
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.