Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.

If you want something in a deal, just ask for it.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

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

It's really easy to get PR with no results & it actually feels like you're really actually cool, but in a year you'll still have nothing.

Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

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