Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

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

One of the pieces of advice that we give at YC is: try to work together on a project rather than just doing an interview.

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.