Company Culture

Pete Flint, Managing Partner, NFX

This is perhaps the most comprehensive article on company culture you can find, covering: How to Find Your Company Values How to Ship Your Company Values How to Program Your Culture How to Measure and Iterate

Yan-David Erlich, Founder & CEO, Parsable

Yan-David describes a practical tactic he used over 6 weeks to interview 15 out of 40 team members at his company and use the content to define their company's culture.

Molly Graham, COO, Quip

This article provides a case study on how Facebook defined their culture, from Facebook's Manager of Culture. She details how Mark Zuckerburg's personality and founding story deeply impacted the company.

Andrew Chen, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Andrew provides a simple framework for the three primary components of company culture - the head (analysis), heart (mission), and hands (speed), which can often be in conflict with one another.

Tyler Sean Palmer, VP of Operations, Patreon

Tyler shares and explains Patreon's Culture deck, which includes their mission, core behaviors, manager expectations, spending, compensation, and more.

Katarina Berg, Chief Human Resources Officer, Spotify

Katarina talks about company culture from a European perspective and focuses on how to program your company culture based on her experience at Spotify.

Alex MacCaw, CEO & Founder, Clearbit

Alex provides a number of examples of rituals and processes Stripe used to live their values, including: email transparency, all-hands meetings, group activities, and having everyone pitch in on customer support.

Michael Katz, CEO & Co-founder, mParticle

Michael tells a profound story of how mParticle's company culture broke down as they grew, and what they did to reshape it.

Ben Thompson, Author/Founder, Stratechery

Ben describes how company culture can change over time, even at large companies, using examples from Microsoft and Apple.