• "Consensus can be valuable, but it is not always possible."
• "You can't always expect everybody in your organization to get to your vision as quickly as you did."
• "Sometimes you have to say, no, I know that's where we need to go."
• "The CEO is ultimately responsible for making the decision."
• "You need to make the decision when you have 70 % of the information available, not 100%."
• "When you do a startup, it's like sand in an hour glass, you only have so much time to get product/market fit, you only have so much money, so much resources..."
• "...any decisions that are above the water line...that aren't going to sink the ship...I want those decisions made by other people in the organization..."
• "When somebody brings you a problem, the first question you have to ask is...should I be making this decision?"
• "Hiring is the most critical thing."
• "If you do hiring well, it makes every other part of the CEO job much much easier."
• From Joel's Book: "Admitting you were wrong and moving on will allow you to maintain credibility with your team."
• "If you don't have that self-awareness, it's very hard to get better as a CEO."

1. Giving more freedom to your product developers...delegation.
2. The value of insight.
3. The problem with ignoring people performance/disruption issues...confrontation.
4. Employee climate..."you can't let fear be the driver."
5. The opportunity and challenge with high CEO expectations.
6. Team building activities...allows everyone to see each other as human beings.
7. FOCUS: The curse of product development.