Founding Team Quotes

It is much easier to hire your 20th person than your 1st.

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

... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.

Whenever I talk to people who founded a company, I often like to ask the prehistory questions 'When did you meet? How long have you been working before you started the company?' A bad answer is, 'We met at a networking event a week ago, and we started a company because we both want to be entrepreneurs.'

If you have a cofounder, one of the benefits is you'll get from point A to point B two times faster.

It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.

Everyone on the founding team ought to invest the time in a coding bootcamp.

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

When I started my company in the U.S. I was always told by my mentors, 'If you want to start a tech company, you need a technical co-founder,' because outsourcing just doesn't work. It is too slow, it is too expensive, and the product is going to change a lot.

My whole life's been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it.

You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.

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

Startup success is driven most by the product passion, quality, vision, team-work and persistence of the founding team and the talent that the team attracts.

Because it was the original 4 guys, and the dynamic of those 4 guys interacting together that had the power.

When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.

A startup is not just about the idea: it's about testing and then implementing the idea. A founding team without these skills is likely dead on arrival.

Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster.

You know in a startup, you only need three people. You need someone who can make something. You need someone who can sell it. And you need someone to collect the money. That's the only three roles in a startup. So which one are you?

It's a common case with high-growth startups where the co-founding team breaks up - generally, it's hard to get the team to persist. It's easy to stick with it when you have known the person for decades either as a friend or family.

For the first two years of Eventbrite, all the work was done by just the three founders: me, my husband, Kevin, and our chief technology officer, Renaud Visage.

The best advice for a first time CEO is make sure you have built a strong technical founding team, and then launch!

No batch of 10 people will have as much an influence on the company as those first 10 people.

Zoomin is a hybrid model. The management and founding team is the one with half.com.

The first people in a company are the most important. They will hire people like themselves and create a culture that either works or eats away at the chance for success.

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 can change, but business partners can't.