Altman's Advice for Startups
Sam Altman gives startups a lot of practical advice.
1 Don’t be overly influenced by negative reviews
A lot of people will say, "Well, these startups suck now, and all the good stuff has already been done."
It's true that most startups fail, so when someone says startups suck, they're right most of the time.
It usually takes a long time for a startup to be recognized as a good company, and now it is often a decade of hard climbing to see the overnight success. Early Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, suffered a fair amount of negative reviews. The real winners of entrepreneurial projects are often ahead of the trend, and they have insight into the future earlier than people's predictions. A good project is not for today's road show, but for the future. People generally prefer a fast-growing market to a slow-growing one. In the early stage of entrepreneurship, many ideas are not recognized by people, but it is precisely such ideas that are more likely to succeed.
Anytime anyone who says there's nothing new in this world is wrong, don't let their poor imagination hold you back.
As a startup, it's frustrating to get negative reviews, but every big company you look at today has been questioned and criticized for a long time. Don't be affected by these negative things (among them, some criticisms are very useful, and you should accept them properly, but the criticisms you need to accept are usually not