Company Quote by Sam Altman

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

— Sam Altman

I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in…

— Patrick Collison

“number of employees who left divided by the average number of employees during that year.”

— Zeynep Ton

The employees of the year, yeah we back to work. I took time off, while other rappers got jerked.

— Erick Sermon

... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.

— Sam Altman

In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place.

— Sam Altman

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

You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.

— Sam Altman

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

— Sam Altman

1 of the hardest parts about being a founder, is that there are a 100 important things competing for your attention each day.

— Sam Altman

The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.

— Sam Altman

We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea…

— Sam Altman