company culture

also referred to as: company cultures

10 statements across 10 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Apr 22, 2016 by Nicolas Dessaigne · across every show →

Everything said about company culture, oldest first

Apr 22, 2016 neutral
Insight
A Company Inherits Its Founders' Culture If They Prioritize It
“I mean, the culture in the end, it's embodied by the founders. I mean the company has the culture of the founders as long as the founders consider the culture important.”
Nicolas Dessaigne Apr 22, 2016 ▶ 11:08 20VC: Fundraising Is Also Business Development with Nicolas Dessaigne, Co-Founder & CEO @ Algolia
Oct 14, 2016
Insight
Uretsky: Micro-details matter more for company culture than big-picture vision
“It's the details that are much more critical than the actual big picture because everyone's worried about the big picture. People ignore the details, but that's where the cracks begin to form that then ultimately become very big problems in the future.”
Moisey Uretsky Oct 14, 2016 ▶ 16:43 20VC: How You Can Learn To Be A Great Business Leader & Why All Successful Business Must Be Loved or Needed with Moisey Uretsky, Founder @ Digital Ocean
Jan 14, 2021
Insight
Ghodsi: Culture and hiring mistakes are harder to fix than product errors
“If you don't hire the right people, if you hired kind of the wrong people, or if you got into a place where the culture in the company is kind of broken, those two things are very hard to fix. Most other things you can fix. You can rewrite your product, you ca…”
Ali Ghodsi Jan 14, 2021 ▶ 36:19 20VC: Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi on The 3 Phases of Startup Growth, How to Evaluate Risk and Downside Scenario Planning & Who, What and When To Hire When Scaling Your Go-To-Market
Feb 1, 2021 positive
Opinion
Paananen: Ben Horowitz's book is the best on company culture
“Well, one thing that I'm very passionate about is company cultures, and the best, by far the best book I've read on the topic is by Ben Horovitch called What You Do Is Who You Are.”
Ilkka Paananen Feb 1, 2021 ▶ 24:47 20VC: Supercell Founder Ilkka Paananen on What it Means To Be "The Least Powerful CEO", His Relationship To Wealth and Risk & How To Create Environments of Safety Where Your Team Can Be Their Best and Most Ambitious Selves
Nov 27, 2023
Insight
Rabois: Culture Hardens Like Concrete and Becomes Painful to Fix Later
“Culture is like concrete and in liquid form. Concrete's really valuable, but once it solidifies, it takes like a jackhammer, which is incredibly disruptive, painful, expensive, to break.”
Keith Rabois Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 45:38 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 10, 2024
Insight
Shurtz: Initial employee onboarding must be in person to convey culture
“I think the initial indoctrination or immersion And if that's a safe word to use needs to be in person. I don't think there's a better way to communicate the culture of the company to interface with important objectives, to talk and meet with executives.”
Larry Shurtz May 10, 2024 ▶ 26:34 Larry Shurtz: How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Vertical Teams | E1151 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 3, 2024
Insight
Eyal: Enforcing who, what, and when builds a stronger execution culture
“There's three W's who, what, and when, that everything they do has to be who, what, and when. So when you start a business and when you running after your client and or trying to get a customer or trying to develop a feature or everything else, it's very simpl…”
Avi Eyal Jul 3, 2024 ▶ 51:41 Avi Eyal: Making $2.3BN on Monday, Stripe & PillPack from Entrée Capital MP | E1173 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 26, 2024 negative
Opinion
Khan: Morale collapse from falling stock prices signals a founder culture failure
“I would challenge that in that case, the founder failed to build a culture.”
Imran Khan Aug 26, 2024 ▶ 5:51 Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2025
Insight
Stebbings: Company culture is purely driven by business momentum and success
“The only thing that matters about culture is that you have momentum. You're moving forward and that you're successful. I've never met a really successful company with a shit culture.”
Harry Stebbings Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 38:20 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Jason James: Business growth is the only thing that truly matters for company culture
“The only thing that matters for culture is growth, like, business growth, because for a business that's growing at, like, an amazing clip, it's always gonna have Cultural sort of issues that, you know, make it kind of suck to like work there, but everybody's o…”
Jason James Aug 29, 2025 ▶ 40:54 20Product: Why Most CPOs are Bad | Why You Do Not Need PMs in a World of AI | Why the Design Stage is Dead and How to Use Vibe Coding to Replace It | The Three Roles All Founders End Up Firing on Repeat with Jason James @ Tezi
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