As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.

What you actually want to do with every single employee, every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks.

The office environment that people live in and work in, dictates your culture and how people make decisions.

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

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.

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.

Barrels are very difficult to find. But when you have them, give them lots of equity. Promote them, take them to dinner every week, because they are virtually irreplaceable because they are also very culturally specific. So a barrel at one company may not be a barrel at another company. One of the ways, the definition of a barrel is, they can take an idea from conception and take it all the way to shipping and bring people with them.