It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

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.

Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example.

Every good startup is a cult. And it's really hard to create a cult if you are sharing space with people. Because a cult means you think you are better than every other startup, you have a special way of doing things that's better than anyone else in the world.

Don't accept the excuse of complexity.

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

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.