Share results (financial and key metrics) with the company every month.

One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.

To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.

You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.

... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.