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

We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture.

The thirteenth search engine- and without all the features of a web portal, most people thought that was pointless.

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

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

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