If you want something in a deal, just ask for it.

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

Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.

Even though plans themselves are worthless, the exercise of planning is very valuable and totally missing in most startups today.

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

... 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.