Sam Altman Years Quotations

You also really want to take the time to think about how the market is going to evolve.You need a market that's going to be big in 10 years.

If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.

It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.

What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

You never want to be in a place where an employee has vested 3 out of the 4 years of stock and they start thinking about leaving.

We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.

It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup.

Good startups usually take 10 years.

It's really easy to get PR with no results & it actually feels like you're really actually cool, but in a year you'll still have nothing.

Why couldn't it have been done 2 years ago, and why will 2 years in the future be too late?

To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.

You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.

AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.

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