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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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.
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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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.
whoever work works
Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
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.
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.
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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.