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
team goal should
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.
team proud should
... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have.
people schedules should
So you should always stay on top of people's vesting schedules.
giving should employee
You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.
ideas firsts should
The idea should come first, the startup should come second.
metrics week should
You should always know how you're doing against your metrics. You should always have a weekly review meeting every week.
team answers should
... how much time you should be spending on hiring? The answer is 0 or 25 percent.
team people should
The best people know that they should join a rocketship.
light money ok spend
What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.
team cost
The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.
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.
consumers tap
With Loopt Star, consumers get to tap interactive rewards wherever they may be.
america device likely networks tapping tend using
Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.
Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.