You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.
... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.
Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.
You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.
Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.
One of the pieces of advice that we give at YC is: try to work together on a project rather than just doing an interview.