A Quote by Sam Altman

There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.

Sam Altman

Quote Topics

Able Authority Companies Doing Else Founders Great Great Thing Great Things History Long Long History Returning Set Things Vision

Quote Author

Sam Altman
American - Businessman

There would really be no reason to get up in the morning if Founders Fund was not willing to invest in companies that were doing important things, great businesses that very few people believe in.

Luke Nosek

The great companies get built by their founders

Marc Andreessen

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.

Guy Kawasaki

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.

Ursula Burns

The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.

Jerry Yang

There are companies that are good at improving what they're already doing. There are companies that are good at extending what they're doing. And finally there are companies that are good at innovation. Every large company has to be able to do all three - improve, extend, and innovate - simultaneously.

Peter Drucker

... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.

Sam Altman

We will hear more regrets from founders of tech companies about the addictive technologies they have launched.

Moshe Vardi

I think that we can all learn from what smart companies are doing. My objective is to demonstrate what's possible, even during tough economic times. This is a period of great business dislocation, but that means it's also the time to try new things. This will be a challenge for existing companies. But the behaviors of smart companies can be learned.

James A. Champy

The best tech companies are led by founders with entrepreneurial zeal and strong egos. They consistently deliver what we want and what we need, at prices that decrease over time. The Wall Street firm is a long-standing institution with a more established hierarchy.

Richard Edelman

There are lots of people building the next TransferWise, not in a sense of competing with us but in a sense of building large, successful companies that are doing something important. I just enjoy helping these founders navigate the journey.

Taavet Hinrikus

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

Sam Altman

Normally, Indian companies follow the trend set by companies abroad. There is usually a long lag period.

Ajay Piramal

The first time I went through YC, it was smaller, and the founders were younger. The advantage of that was that the set of founders who were older than us had really seen the Web 1.0 meltdown. They brought that knowledge to us.

Michael Seibel

Founders need sizable egos to believe that what they are creating is good enough to change the world. What makes for great co-founders is having those egos focused on complementary, not competing, skills.

Jay Samit

The reason why we decided to put the focus on minority and women-funded startups is because this demographic of companies and founders is just underrepresented, they're under-invested in.

Chamillionaire

A Quote by Sam Altman

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors