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Sam Altman Blog

• Sam Altman Blog

Life Advice

• The days are long but the decades are short
• Advice for ambitious 19 year olds

Y Combinator

• Startups, Role Models, Risk, and Y Combinator
• Applying to YC
• The Worst Part of YC
• The Post-YC Slump

RFS

• New RFS -- Breakthrough Technologies

Projects and Companies

• Projects and Companies

Deals

• Black Swan Seed Rounds
• Fundraising Mistakes Founders Make
• The Engineer Crunch
• The separation of advice and money
• Board Members
• Valuations
• Employee Retention
• Employee Equity
• How to hire
• Unit Economics
• Financial Misstatements

Operations Advice

• Super successful companies
• The Only Way to Grow Huge
• Value is created by doing
• How things get done
• Startup advice, briefly

Female Founders

• What I've Learned From Female Founders So Far

Non-Technical Founders

• Non-technical founder? Learn to hack

Founder Depression

• Founder Depression

Silicon Valley

• Why Silicon Valley Works

Bubble

• Bubble talk
• What to do if a bubble is starting

Larger Picture

• Technology predictions
• The Economy
• Policy for Growth and Innovation
• The Software Revolution
• The Software Revolution
• What happened to innovation?

You and Your Research, by Richard Hamming

• You and Your Research, by Richard Hamming

First World

• A Question
• Stupid Apps and Changing the World
• Technology and wealth inequality