... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen
Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.' - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #MakeItHappen
Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #ThinkDifferent #MakeItHappen
... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen
If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #MakeItHappen
The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #YCombinator #YCstartups #MakeItHappen #PlayToWin
If you want something in a deal, just ask for it. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #MakeItHappen
The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #DoTheWork #MakeItHappen
🎓 CSO Senior Spotlight: Nolan G.
After four-years as a proud CSO, Nolan G. plans to continue what he started when he joined the program by studying STEM entrepreneurship. Great job, Nolan; we're proud of and excited for you!
#makeithappen #stemyouthleaders #chiefscienceofficergrads2026
At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen
A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus... - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #StaySharp #MakeItHappen
Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #MakeItHappen #StartNow
The #ActiveTravel transformation in #Paris happened fast.
Is there the will and the #leadership to #makeithappen in your city?
... companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it... - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen
You can't be focussed without really great communication - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #StaySharp #MakeItHappen
If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen
Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #StaySharp #MakeItHappen
Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #MakeItHappen
A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen
Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #MakeItHappen
The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen
If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen
You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #DoTheWork #MakeItHappen
Die Ruhe nach dem Sturm, die Stille nach dem Konzert…
Lass zuvor Dein Leben eine Symphonie sein.
#gedanken #leben #karma #makeithappen
What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution��?-��?and you can't outsource this. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #DoTheWork #MakeItHappen
One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #NoExcuses #MakeItHappen
With Loopt Star, consumers get to tap interactive rewards wherever they may be. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #MakeItHappen
... you should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen
What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildDifferent #MakeItHappen
You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done. - Sam Altman #AI #Motivation #Entrepreneurship #BuildYourTeam #MakeItHappen