It's Easy to Start a Hard Company Than an Easy Company

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"It is harder for sure to make a Mach 2.2 airplane than a Mach 0.95 airplane, but it is easier in the sense that people care," he says. "I think you just have to ignore all of that and just say, like, I have a high level of conviction and we're going to try this thing."

The true seed of scale is customer love, which you can’t buy, hack, or game. Sam Altman, former president of Y Combinator, scaled countless start-ups by focusing on this one idea: Finding 100 users who love you is better than 1 million who kinda like you. As CEO of OpenAI, Sam leads the creation of genuinely useful AI products. He shares timeless insights in his interview from 2018 on how to build on the love of passionate customers to create world-shifting tools.

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