Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.

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 first thing that editor does is they take out a red pen, or nowadays you go online, and they start striking things. Basically eliminating things, the biggest task of an editor is to simplify, simplify, simplify and that usually means omitting things.

You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.

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

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