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.

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.

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

Usually when you hire more engineers, you actually don't get that much more done, you actually sometimes get less done.

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.

It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.

Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.