Sam Altman Quotes
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
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The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.
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That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
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I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
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I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.
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The nice thing about Reddit is, we don't have to sell your data or build a profile of you or do stuff that makes people feel uncomfortable.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.
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Maybe I am a bit unusual here, but I am less stressed if I have my phone with me. Because I can spend like an hour in the morning taking care of everything instead of I sit there and wonder what I missed or wonder what's happening. So it's way less stressful for me to just answer my phone.
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Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
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Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.
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What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.
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Do I think every culture will embrace location technology? Yes.
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Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
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If you look at people who have an iPhone or Android and are under 40 and are dissatisfied with their bank, it's actually quite a large market.