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

Transparency people talk a lot about, it's a goal everybody ascribes to but when push comes to shove, very few people actually adhere to it.

Don't accept the excuse of complexity.

The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.

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.