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A company gets better at the things it practices.

Your employees have lots of opinions about everything - your strategy and vision; the state of the competition; the quality of your products; the vibe in the workplace. There are tons of things you can learn from them.

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.

Personally, I feel that a company which looks at problems of other companies and learns from their mistakes is a successful one.

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.

When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.