competitors

“Competitors making noise in the press I think probably crushes a company's momentum more often than any other external factor.”

“Don't worry about a competitor at all until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.”

“What makes companies fail most of the time is poor execution by the founders, right? We often talk to startups who are worried about competitors, and one good, one advantage of YC having funded so many companies is you have a really large data set, and like, h…”

“The depressing fact that most likely everyone's going to die. So like, you're not accounting for like the most common outcomes, like you and your competitors, none of you will make something that people want.”

“One was running a national TV campaign where we spent millions of dollars advertising on behalf of the industry, basically saying whether you order on us or any of our peers, just order.”

“I think it's always good to overestimate your competitor's capabilities and then figure out your strategy in a world where they have those capabilities.”