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Sam Altman Quotes: If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.
         

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.


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



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Obsess about the quality of the product.



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In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.



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No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.



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You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.



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Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.



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