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SCALER POD 08 ft. Prasanna Sankar, Co-Founder, Rippling | 6 Sigma Events, Startups and Blockchain

Scaler Pod - The Software Engineer's Podcast

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The Value of Culture and Stuff in a Startup

The biggest thing that I learned was the value of this thing called culture and stuff. As you hire more and more smart people, like when you're growing really fast, you don't have a ton of time to bring everyone on and train them. And often what you're doing as a result is hiring more senior and higher sort of experienced people who come in and they can perform. Those are the right hires to make. But once you do that, then you notice that your org is becoming really slow. Like I call it mean reversion. The company tends towards the normal identity or that intuition starts getting lost. That's that's lost. So there's nothing differentiated about yourself, the

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