The thing about Y Combinator that’s cool is that most companies won’t happen if we don’t fund them. Sam Altman Read Quote
If you have the opportunity to go be an early employee at a company that’s just going crazy, and you believe it’s the next Facebook or Google, you should go join that company. Sam Altman Read Quote
If you have a startup that’s keeping it up at night because you think it’s so great, then you should do that. Sam Altman Read Quote
People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don’t understand how it’s going to evolve. Sam Altman Read Quote
Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder. Sam Altman Read Quote
The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology. Sam Altman Read Quote
The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important. Sam Altman Read Quote
I have plenty of investments that I wish I’d never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment. Sam Altman Read Quote
Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that’s a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful. Sam Altman Read Quote
