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
companies figure tie trying ways
Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
way grows one-thing
One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.
way missions company
Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.
way wells company
The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.
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.
pain matter way
There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.
way done situation
The way you get deals done and the way you get good terms, is to have a competitive situation.
track focus way
Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.
way easy easier
When it comes to starting startups, in many ways, it's easier to start a hard startup than an easy startup.
way sound stranger
Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.
mission
It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
biggest experience
The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
bad compete diagram famous good great ideas lie people secretly thus totally until
There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.
cost life
The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.