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
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Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
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If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.
trying quality execution
Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality.
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The second part of how to hire: try not to.
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What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.
trying important connections
Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.
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If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.
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The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.
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One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.
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With Loopt Star, consumers get to tap interactive rewards wherever they may be.
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The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
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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.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'