Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.

At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed

You never want to be in a place where an employee has vested 3 out of the 4 years of stock and they start thinking about leaving.

Unpopular but right is what you're going for.