Excel Quote by Julia Hartz

For entrepreneurs, choosing your co-founders is like a professional marriage. You're going to go through tough times, and you need to remember that ideas…

— Nathan Blecharczyk

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

— Sam Altman

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

— Sam Altman

More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.

— Sam Altman

The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.

— Sam Altman

In life, in the media, and everything, people focus way too much on founders.

— Patrick Collison

The beauty of being co-founders with your spouse is that we run our business and family together.

— Julia Hartz

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan -…

— Alexander Osterwalder

The company is definitely set up in a way where myself and the other founders have a lot of control over it.

— Mark Zuckerberg

Founders are exceptional, and they all want to go back to creating. And I feel privileged to be able to do that.

— Payal Kadakia

Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.

— Roelof Botha

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

— Sam Altman