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.

Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through the number of unique barrels you have, so that's how the velocity of your company improves... is by adding barrels, and then you stock them with ammunition and then you can do a lot.

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

Don't accept the excuse of complexity.

You really need to spend a lot of your time focussing people.

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

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.