Sam Altman Quotes

Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It's all about selling.

Whatever we can't develop internally - and nobody develops everything internally - you have to be able to trade and sign free agents.

Recruiting is not an exact science.

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

I think I'm overrated as a recruiter.

If the team needs me to recruit somebody, I'll be here. I'll be doing that.

Rightly or wrongly, for better or worse, valuation is a very important tool for recruiting - particularly in the markets for software engineering, where the market is really tight.

Recruiting is all about relationships, it's not really about the facilities or the schools involved.

The number one thing in recruiting in terms of making it a great job is players in your own area.

We talk a lot in Silicon Valley about product pipelines and sales pipelines, but what about talent pipelines? It is, after all, talent - people - who give us products to sell.

I have a wealth of experience, but I do not want to coach. I rather like the role of recruiter.

People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.

It's getting the right person that's the challenge.

I'm always looking for new talent.

Tell me who you want to see on the Left, and I'll hire them. If you give me a big name that's out there, that's floating around and wants work, I'd be happy to hire them.

Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

The experts typically know where the other best-in-the-world talents are currently working and can help you recruit them in with a credible intro.

Successful companies hire people.

I think the biggest thing was that when I was in college, I really concentrated on personnel. That was my strength, and I was, in essence, my own recruiting coordinator. And when I went to the pros, I did the same thing.

It is much easier to hire your 20th person than your 1st.

The first thing you always do is seek out the best people that you can find for your organization. If you find the best people, you can basically go anywhere you want to go because they will take you there.

I'd like to build a superteam. I'd like the superteam to come to me.

We will employ almost every strategy and hustle in any possible way to recruit top engineers to our team.