Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.

In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.

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

AirBnB happened because Brian Chesky couldn't pay his rent, but did have some space.

Even though plans themselves are worthless, the exercise of planning is very valuable and totally missing in most startups today.

AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.

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