Once your product is working, switch from not caring about this to caring about this a little bit.

You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.

Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more.

What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.

... the thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place.