The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.

It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.

The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.

It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it.

It's really easy to get PR with no results & it actually feels like you're really actually cool, but in a year you'll still have nothing.

The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.