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

What you actually want to do with every single employee, every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks.

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

Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.

The office environment that people live in and work in, dictates your culture and how people make decisions.

The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.

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