A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn't won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.

Once your product is working, switch from not caring about this to caring about this a little bit.

You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time.

At YC we have this public phrase, and it's relentlessly resourceful.

It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.

Why couldn't it have been done 2 years ago, and why will 2 years in the future be too late?

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