Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.

In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.

The idea should come first, the startup should come second.

You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.

You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.

It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

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