It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.

What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.

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.

The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.

You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.

The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm.