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.

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

You are not going to do most of the work. You shouldn't be doing most of the work... and the way you get out of doing most of the work, is you delegate.

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

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

The team you build is the company you build.

I'd actually argue forging a company is far more harder than forging a product