So much of conversation is on company Strategy…but Culture always eats strategy for breakfast. So what does Culture for startups mean? How does it get created? Where does it come from? Startup culture stems from 3 areas: —> The founder’s personality and DNA —> The early team’s personality and DNA —> The early products personality and DNA A lot of these overlap and reinforce each other. Some of it is top down….some of it is emergent. It sucks when the emergence is artificially dampened..because perhaps the founder is too weak to instittuionalize. It also sucks when there is so much difference of opinion that you end up getting pockets of different culture. I don’t want to get dragged into DEI nonsense. We can be from different backgrounds but all agree to be part of the same company culture.
人们谈论公司的 Strategy（战略）很多……但 Culture（文化）总是会把战略当早餐吃掉。那么，对 startups（初创公司）来说，Culture 意味着什么？它是如何被创造出来的？它来自哪里？初创公司的文化源自 3 个方面：—> founder（创始人）的 personality 和 DNA —> early team（早期团队）的 personality 和 DNA —> early products（早期产品）的 personality 和 DNA。这里面有很多内容会相互重叠、彼此强化。有些是自上而下形成的……有些则是自然涌现出来的。当这种涌现被人为压制时，情况就很糟糕……比如 founder 太弱，无法将其制度化。同样，如果分歧太大，最后形成一个个不同文化的小圈子，那也很糟糕。我不想被卷入 DEI 这类 nonsense。我们可以来自不同背景，但仍然一致同意成为同一种公司文化的一部分。