Quotes by Sam Altman

Sam Altman

… and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you; you know fires in a day.

Everyday

Fire

Knows

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… but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have.

Proud

Should

Team

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… but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we’re in today feels suboptimal.

Ideas

Today

World

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… fire fast when it’s not working. It’s better for the company, it’s also better for the employee.

Employee

Fire

Team

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… for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.

Team

Twenties

Two

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… how much time you should be spending on hiring? The answer is 0 or 25 percent.

Answers

Should

Team

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… if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.

Employee

Firsts

Team

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… the thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.

Firsts

People

Want

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… We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.

Rate

Solo

Team

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… you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that’s a tough bar.

Bars

Team

Thinking

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