Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user.

The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.

Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.

Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through the number of unique barrels you have, so that's how the velocity of your company improves... is by adding barrels, and then you stock them with ammunition and then you can do a lot.

The first thing that editor does is they take out a red pen, or nowadays you go online, and they start striking things. Basically eliminating things, the biggest task of an editor is to simplify, simplify, simplify and that usually means omitting things.

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

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