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.

The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder.

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

You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

There are three things you need to do as a CEO-founder. Think strategically, drive design, and drive technology. Some people who are really good at one can build a pretty foundational company. Most people who are very successful are good at two. But Jack is the only person in the Valley I've met who's all three. He's a first-rate strategist, a first-rate designer, and a first-rate technologist.

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.