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“Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire company.”
“In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups.”
“The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.”
“... for the top twenty most valuable YC companies, all of them have at least two founders.”
“... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.”
“At YC we have this public phrase, and it's relentlessly resourceful.”
“You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.”
“In addition to relentlessly resourceful, you want a tough and a calm cofounder.”
“In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect.”
“... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.”
“At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.”
“One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.”
“... how much time you should be spending on hiring? The answer is 0 or 25 percent.”
“You're either not hiring at all or it's probably your single biggest block of time.”
“If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.”
“A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.”
“If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.”
“Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.”
“For early employees you want people that have somewhat of a risk-taking attitude.”
“You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.”
“You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.”