... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.

More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.

Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.

The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won.

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

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

... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.