Should Quotes by Sam Altman

The best people know that they should join a rocketship.

— Sam Altman

Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not…

— Sam Altman

You should always know how you're doing against your metrics. You should always have a weekly review meeting every week.

— Sam Altman

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

— Sam Altman

You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.

— Sam Altman

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.

— Sam Altman

You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.

— Sam Altman

You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.

— Sam Altman

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

— Sam Altman

The idea should come first, the startup should come second.

— Sam Altman

So you should always stay on top of people's vesting schedules.

— Sam Altman

I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.

— Sam Altman

At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

— Sam Altman