Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.

Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

Build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will.

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 virtually irreplaceable because they are also very culturally specific. So a barrel at one company may not be a barrel at another company. One of the ways, the definition of a barrel is, they can take an idea from conception and take it all the way to shipping and bring people with them.

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