... 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.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

Obsess about the quality of the product.

In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

Never live life without a hope.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.

The choiceless truth of who you are is revealed to be permanently here permeating everything. Not a thing and not separate from anything.

Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.

You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.