If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

You don't get to make their decisions but you do get to choose the decision makers.

When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.

There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.

More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.

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