The next thing you do is allocate resources.

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds

The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice.

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

You really need to spend a lot of your time focussing people.

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.