Backwards Quote by Sam Altman

For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive…

— Lynn Jurich

We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

— Sam Altman

Founders are supposed to be not at all interested in selling. But there is a price at which a founder can't help being interested.

— Alexis Ohanian

Founders are exceptional, and they all want to go back to creating. And I feel privileged to be able to do that.

— Payal Kadakia

It turns out that one of the biggest drivers of investors are both successful and non-successful startup founders.

— Michael Seibel

The company is definitely set up in a way where myself and the other founders have a lot of control over it.

— Mark Zuckerberg

'Founder' is a state of mind, not a job description, and if done right, even CEOs who join after day 1 can become founders.

— Reid Hoffman

Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.

— Roelof Botha

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan -…

— Alexander Osterwalder

Too often, founders make decisions before determining whether they are the right thing to do. These decisions often create chaos in their companies where…

— Mark Goulston

One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.

— Mitch Kapor

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the…

— Sam Altman