We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.

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.

You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.

These all sounded really bad, but they turned out to be good. If they had sounded really good, there would have been too many people working on them.

If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.

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.