When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.

I walk into a company office and I can tell often whether I'm gonna invest, as soon as I walk in.

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

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

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.

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.