You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.

Just put a little pin in your mind: when you cross 50 employees, there are a new set of HR rules that you have to comply with.

... the thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.

A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.

One thing that often disrupts momentum and really shouldn't is competitors.

Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.