Founders

Something I learned from @fehrsam that has stuck with me constantly is not doing side quests as a founder

Time and attention is scarce, you'll get invited to endless things / opportunities as a founder but vast majority just pull you away from the most important parts of building the company so keeping focus is key

This was the most important thing YC drilled into me.

No side quests - social media, talks, conferences, bd and corp dev are dangerous distractions. 

Talk to customers, ship code, grow your primary metric, stay healthy. Repeat.

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Didn't YC fund AirBnB because Brian Chesky & Joe Gebbia created Obama O's cereal boxes? That seems like peak side quest

Software Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems. B4: Stanford EE / Illinois ECE

They story as PG told us during YC was that they did it to raise 50k for their startup which would have been dead if they didn't do it because no one else would fund them.  

I would say that's main quest on death march difficulty.