So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.

You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.

Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

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

One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.