YOU SHOULD RUN YOUR STARTUP LIKE A CULT. HERE'S HOW
No
company has a culture; every company is a culture. A startup is a team of people on a
mission, and a good culture is just what that looks like on the inside. The
first team that I built has become known in Silicon Valley as the “PayPal
Mafia” because so many of my former colleagues, including Elon Musk, Reid
Hoffman, and David Sacks, have gone on to help each other start and invest in
successful tech companies.
ZERO TO ONE: NOTES ON STARTUPS, OR HOW TO BUILD THE FUTURE
We
didn’t assemble a mafia by sorting through résumés and simply hiring the most
talented people. I had seen the mixed results of that approach when I worked at
a New York law firm. The relationships between lawyers I worked with were oddly
thin. They spent all day together, but few of them seemed to have much to say
to each other outside the office.
Why
work with a group of people who don’t even like each other? Taking a merely
professional view of the workplace, in which free agents check in and out on a transactional
basis, is worse than cold: It’s not even rational. Since time is your most
valuable asset, it’s odd to spend it working with people who don’t envision any
long‑term future together. . .
Read more at https://www.wired.com/2014/09/run-startup-like-cult-heres/
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