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early employees

also referred to as: early employee

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 17, 2017 by Sam Altman · across every show →

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Mar 17, 2017 positive
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Altman: Most successful YC companies were generous with early employee equity
“The YC companies that have done this well, the YC companies that have been super generous with equity to early employees in general are the most successful ones that we funded.”
Sam Altman Mar 17, 2017 ▶ 19:39 Team and Execution with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 2) · Y Combinator
May 31, 2017
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Altman: Losing inner-circle information access drives most early startup employee departures
“Certainly when you get to the stage where people that were used to knowing everything don't know everything, ah, that, I think more early employees leave over that than anything else, and it's really tough to say what to do about that. it's people that have…”
Sam Altman May 31, 2017 ▶ 29:57 From Startup to Scaleup | Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman · Y Combinator
Nov 7, 2025 neutral
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Paffenholz: Early startup employees take on risk similar to founders
“And so in some ways, the risk that an early employee is taking on is somewhat similar to the risk that a founder takes on.”
David Paffenholz Nov 7, 2025 ▶ 3:33 The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator
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