

#81 - Being intentional with team culture & incentive alignment (Tim Kendall & Sam Corcos)
12 snips Mar 4, 2022
Sam Corcos, CEO of Levels, and Tim Kendall, an early Facebook employee and investor, discuss the importance of team culture and incentive alignment within a company. Topics include building a strong culture, reaching your audience, embracing your uniqueness, screening for adaptability, and the benefits of change and open-mindedness.
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Intentional Culture Building
- Culture must be intentionally built from the start and cannot be fixed easily later.
- Founders heavily shape company culture, so they must model desired behaviors consistently.
Founder Shapes Company Culture
- A company culture often reflects the personality and traits of its founder.
- This founder embodiment influences core values and operational norms deeply.
Emergent Culture Through Stories
- At Pinterest, a story of a CTO teaching a colleague about fixing coffee embodied the "every problem is your problem" value.
- This emergent story became a powerful cultural symbol repeated widely.