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.

Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.

You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job.

Most 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.

Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team.

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