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.

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

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.

The team you build is the company you build.

Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example.

Usually when you hire more engineers, you actually don't get that much more done, you actually sometimes get less done.

It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.