If the Martians took over eBay it would take 6 months for the world to notice.

It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.

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

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.

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.