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

You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job.

I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. Peter talks a little bit about this, every good startup is a cult. It's very hard to create a cult if you're sharing space with people.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

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

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.