Relevant PG tweet: > assuming I got in [to YC] I would not get sucked into raising a huge amount on Demo Day. > I would raise maybe $500k, keep the company sm

Relevant PG tweet: > assuming I got in [to YC] I would not get sucked into raising a huge amount on Demo Day. > I would raise maybe $500k, keep the company small for the first year, work closely with users to make something amazing, and otherwise stay off SV's radar. In other words, be the opposite of a scenester. > Ideally I'd get to profitability on that initial $500k. Later I could raise more, if I felt like it. Or not. But it would be on my terms. > At every point in the company's growth, I'd keep the company as small as I could. I'd always want people to be surprised how few employees we had. Fewer employees = lower costs, and less need to turn into a manager. (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1132012625527750661 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1132012625527750661) Probably a good example of a confident, competent founder (Founders who raise too much capital are acting out of fear rather than acting out of confidence. // Confident, competent founders should take the risk of running out of money vs. the certainty of over-dilution.) as described on this essay :)