Sam Altman

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• The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate. Days
• One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better. All
• Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed Bound
• Growth solves (nearly) all problems All
• Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can. Equity
• No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product. Brilliant
• You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all… All
• Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter. Bit
• Share results (financial and key metrics) with the company every month. Company
• Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies. Advantage
• Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor. Badly
• Obsess about the quality of the product. Funny
• If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's… Babies
• In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years. General
• It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it. Better
• Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral. Any
• Every company has a rocky beginning. Beginning
• As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company. Beat
• The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time. All
• Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea… Execution
• You need someone that behaves like James Bond more than you need someone that is an expert in some particular domain. Behave
• The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing. Beginning
• No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people. Around Smart
• Study the unusually successful people you know, and you will find them imbued with enthusiasm for their work which is contagious. Not only are they… Contagious

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