Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn't match... them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That's the #1 reason this fails. And that's generally a good place to start: Here's where we are and here's what I didn't recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'

When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.