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

I'd actually argue forging a company is far more harder than forging a product

When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.

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

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

You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.

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