The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.

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

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.

I think you must have your own office. I don't believe ever in shared office spaces.

Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.

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

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