The team you build is the company you build.

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.

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.

Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do.

You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.

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.

If the Martians took over eBay it would take 6 months for the world to notice.