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

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.

The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder.

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.

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

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

The way you scale that is you create notes for every meeting and send it to the entire company.