Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do..

I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. Peter talks a little bit about this, every good startup is a cult. It's very hard to create a cult if y….

Transparency people talk a lot about, it's a goal everybody ascribes to but when push comes to shove, very few people actually adhere to it..

I'd actually argue forging a company is far more harder than forging a product.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things..

The team you build is the company you build..

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run..

The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds.

Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate..

Build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will..

Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself..

Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through the number of unique ba….

There are three things you need to do as a CEO-founder. Think strategically, drive design, and drive technology. Some people who are really good at o….

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee..

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday..

The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice..

At first when you start a company, everything's gonna feel like a mess and it really should. It should feel like everyday there's a new problem, and ….

Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team..

The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager..

The office environment that people live in and work in, dictates your culture and how people make decisions..

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform..