Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.

I walk into a company office and I can tell often whether I'm gonna invest, as soon as I walk 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 barrels you have, so that's how the velocity of your company improves... is by adding barrels, and then you stock them with ammunition and then you can do a lot.

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

Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.

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 culture without you ever saying anything. You never have to really do anything except watch and promote and move people around.

If the Martians took over eBay it would take 6 months for the world to notice.