A third advantage of mission oriented companies, is that people outside the company are more willing to help you.

You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying.

It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup.

You can basically change everything in a startup but the market.

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

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

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.