Even with all the money and the smartest people, you cannot recreate the success of the Chronoet. It takes more than attention and marketing to sustain growth. Entrepreneurs must renounce their desire to scale and focus on a loyal customer base.
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.