Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies. — Sam Altman Advantage Copy Share Image
You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer. — Sam Altman Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
By the way, that's my number one piece of advice if you're going to join a startup: pick a rocket ship. — Sam Altman Advice Copy Share Image
If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company. — Sam Altman Business Copy Share Image
In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect. — Sam Altman Founders Copy Share Image
Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these. — Sam Altman Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere. — Sam Altman Execution Copy Share Image
You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too… — Sam Altman Bigs Copy Share Image
There are 3 things I look for when I hire people. Are they smart? Do they get things done? Do I want… — Sam Altman Done Copy Share Image
Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture. — Sam Altman Culture Copy Share Image
It's really easy to get PR with no results & it actually feels like you're really actually cool, but in a year… — Sam Altman Easy Copy Share Image
It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter. — Sam Altman Ideas Copy Share Image
... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire?… — Sam Altman Bars Copy Share Image
... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have. — Sam Altman Be proud Copy Share Image
What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try… — Sam Altman Business Copy Share Image
In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups. — Sam Altman Cases Copy Share Image
To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to… — Sam Altman People Copy Share Image
Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody… — Sam Altman Business Copy Share Image
Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip. — Sam Altman First time Copy Share Image
Study the unusually successful people you know, and you will find them imbued with enthusiasm for their work which is contagious. Not… — Sam Altman Contagious Copy Share Image
You can basically change everything in a startup but the market. — Sam Altman Change Copy Share Image
Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire… — Sam Altman Answers Copy Share Image
As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to… — Sam Altman Building Copy Share Image
So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup. — Sam Altman Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
