The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.
Keith RaboisMost 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.
Keith RaboisCreate tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.
Keith RaboisWhen you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.
Keith Rabois