It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better..

The team you build is the company you build..

If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them... it's a sign that they believe that person can he….

Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first..

It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say the….

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

I think you must have your own office. I don't believe ever in shared office spaces..

Barrels are very difficult to find. But when you have them, give them lots of equity. Promote them, take them to dinner every week, because they are ….

You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard..

The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder..

The key to culture is it's a framework for making decisions. And if it's baked into your culture, people learn how to make decisions across that cult….

The more you simplify, the better people will perform. People can not understand and keep track of a long complicated set of initiatives. So you have….

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

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..

Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user..

Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example..

The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in..

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….

Every good startup is a cult. And it's really hard to create a cult if you are sharing space with people. Because a cult means you think you are bett….

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