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.

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

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….

The team you build is the company you build..

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

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..

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….

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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..

You can build the most important companies in history with a very simple to describe concept. You can market products in less than 50 characters. The….

What you actually want to do with every single employee, every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks..

Don't accept the excuse of complexity. A lot of people will tell you, this is too challenging, this is too complicated, yeah well I know other people….

You want to start with the objective of everything should feel exactly the same..

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