You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.

It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.

The most important thing is that there is clear reporting structure and everyone knows what it is.

Some day everyone will find out everyone else's comp, if it's all over the place, it will be a complete meltdown disaster

A third advantage of mission oriented companies, is that people outside the company are more willing to help you.

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.