Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

The more you simplify, the better people will perform. People can not understand and keep track of a long complicated set of initiatives. So you have to distill it down to one, two, or three things and use a framework they can repeat, they can repeat without thinking about, they can repeat to their friends, they can repeat at night.

Don't accept the excuse of complexity. A lot of people will tell you, this is too challenging, this is too complicated, yeah well I know other people simplify but that's not for me, this is a complicated business. They're wrong. You can change the world in 140 characters.

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.

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

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.

The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.