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#61 - Sam Altman on Masters of Scale

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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The Single Greatest Embarrassement of Your Career

The single greatest embarrassment of your career. So many investments that I have been so confident about have utterly failed and I was so completely wrong. Let certain fires burn while you're solving others because startups are inherently dead at the beginning. You don't want to be the founder that gets everything but building a great product perfect. And so you just have to ruthlessly prioritize is this going to do it or not.

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