You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time.

If someone is getting every decision wrong, that's when you need to act, and at that point it'll be painfully aware to everyone.

At YC we have this public phrase, and it's relentlessly resourceful.

Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.

One of the keys to focus, and why I said cofounders that aren't friends really struggle, is that you can't be focused without good communication.

... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.

Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.