You want to continue to be run by great products, not process for it's own sake.

In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect.

... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you; you know fires in a day.

A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn't won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.

As you grow, it feels hopelessly corporate but it really is worth putting in place these compensation bands.

Good startups usually take 10 years.

When it comes to starting startups, in many ways, it's easier to start a hard startup than an easy startup.