Sam Altman What I Wish Someone Had Told Me

Start with optimism, obsession, horsepower, and connections. Finish with cohesive teams, calm urgency, and extreme commitment. Prioritize long-term, ignore short-term judgment. Hard, impactful tasks motivate. Set careful incentives, focus resources on high-conviction bets. Communicate crisply, challenge bureaucracy, prioritize results. Recruit thoroughly, gamble on high-improvement people, evaluate organizational impacts. Favor fast iteration over perfection, plan long-term, execute short-term. Embrace business laws, avoid inaction, anticipate scale benefits. Revere compounding exponentials, persist, appreciate great colleagues.

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