Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.

Every good startup is a cult. And it's really hard to create a cult if you are sharing space with people. Because a cult means you think you are better than every other startup, you have a special way of doing things that's better than anyone else in the world.

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

You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.

You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.

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

At first when you start a company, everything's gonna feel like a mess and it really should. It should feel like everyday there's a new problem, and what you're doing is fundamentally triaging.