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
whoever work works
Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
hard secret success work
Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work.
ambitious time work
Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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Companies generally work better when they are smaller. It's always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
years work-out ifs
If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.
hard-work people focus
So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.
team work-out joining
If someone is choosing between joining McKinsey or your startup it's very unlikely they're going to work out at the startup.
real team work-out
If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.
hard-work enough hard
Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard...maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things.
working-all-the-time wells
The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
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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.
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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.