Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.

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

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

Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.

... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have.