... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.

The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.

We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.

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

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

You want to continue to be run by great products, not process for it's own sake.

Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.