Core Values

“At Airbnb, we had core value interviewers up until, I mean, my entire tenure, basically, even when we had thousands of people already at the company, when we were hiring people, everybody had to pass core values interviews. So it was very ingrained in how we h…”

“Don't copy some other company's core values. Instead, just be intentional about what matters to your organization, and then make sure that those core values are freaking everywhere, part of every single process. Otherwise, like, no one's gonna care.”

“Something they learned about core values that I thought is really interesting is they shouldn't be aspirational. They should be who you actually are. And so there's a period where the founders are like, we're not actually amazing at this thing. So let's just r…”

“I don't think you take risk on values. So I think you need to be really grounded, know what your values are, what your core values, and never deviate, and even live them when they're hard. I think that Sometimes it's hard, but that means you're living your val…”

“Once somebody really kind of embodies their core values, their decisions come so much faster. So they're not on the yes train, but they can actually be more conscious of what they say yes to, and also be super aware of if they're saying yes to something, they …”