When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.

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.

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

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

I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.

In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups.