414 Quotes by Sam Altman

"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 tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won."

"The idea should come first, the startup should come second."

"If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies."

"A lot of people don't love their bank."

"The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time."

"It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it."

"AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies."

"The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster."

"Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral."