Sam Altman
Sam Altman
Samuel H. "Sam" Altmanis an American entrepreneur, programmer, venture capitalist and blogger. He is the president of Y Combinator and co-chairman of OpenAI...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
team founders equity
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.
smart team people
People that are really smart and that can learn new things can almost always find a role in the company as time goes on.
team people done
You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.
team animal able
... you should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.
mean years long
What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.
team might firsts
If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.
team firsts facts
A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.
regret team compromise
If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.
team firsts employee
... 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...
team needs desperate
At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.
team years numbers
Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.
team numbers want
... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.
team proud should
... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have.
team trying
The second part of how to hire: try not to.