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

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.

Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team.

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

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

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

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