Sam Altman Quotations | Page 2

If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.

The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.

There is a lot of stuff I like. I love backpacking. I love going to an island where I can just sit on the beach and read or scuba dive and sail. I do a lot of that. I still go backpacking around Europe in the summers and staying in hostels. I love that.

Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.

That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.

Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.