Culture Matters a Lot at Work

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A culture matters a lot when the shod is hit the fan, and people are running for the for the accets. Its having o a strong team, a strong culture, a strong belief that what kind of keeps you together and gets you through that hard part. This season we'll talk about what we can learn from the great resignation, how to pitch your ideas to your colleagues or even your boss. And well, discover how to wrestle with perfectionism without feeling like a failure.

In this episode from February 2017, a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz and Jason Rosenthal, former Lytro CEO (now Vice President, Subscription Services, at Google) share stories and lessons learned from doing whatever they could to help their companies survive in hard times, including making and living through major pivots, selling new products before they were ready, figuring out financing with market and industry headwinds against them, and more. From their days together at LoudCloud to Jason’s experience at Lytro, and beyond, a common theme emerges: a CEO’s job is lonely in these moments and the hardest thing about a big pivot or change might be in finding the courage to make the decision in the first place.