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.

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

You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.

There are 3 things I look for when I hire people. Are they smart? Do they get things done? Do I want to spend a lot of time around them?

It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.

I myself used to believe ideas didn't matter that much, but I'm very sure that's wrong now.

At YC we have this public phrase, and it's relentlessly resourceful.