I walk into a company office and I can tell often whether I'm gonna invest, as soon as I walk in.

As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.

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 what you're doing is fundamentally triaging.

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

The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.

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 they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.