Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.

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.

Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is... simply writing down how you do things and why you do things.

The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.

If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.

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