Founders Quotes

Founders need to figure out what the message of the company is going to be.

The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.

In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect.

One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.

You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.

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.

We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea they really loved.

Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

Before 20 or 25 employees, most companies are structured with everyone reporting to the founder. It's totally flat.

Most founders have not managed people before, and they certainly haven't managed managers.

You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.

Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip.

Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture.

The best founders work on things that seem small but they move really quickly. They get things done really quickly.

Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.

This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists.

The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising.

The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.

The day history will die and lose its essence with time, memories will not only die, but they shall also surely be forgotten with time!

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...