It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.

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.

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.

What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.

You can't be focussed without really great communication

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.