If someone is getting every decision wrong, that's when you need to act, and at that point it'll be painfully aware to everyone.

More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.

It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it.

So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.

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

We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

You'll get more support on a hard, important, project than a derivative one.