Values
topic on 4 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
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7 statements about Values, every show
Gandhi: Human Values Are Inherited From the Future, Not the Past
“Values are things that you inherit from the future that we seek to build together.”
Chilla: Ignoring Foundational Values Early On Permanently Ruins Scaling Startups
“It's a disastrous noise. Values can't come back. You have to start from the foundation, you know, once, I mean, we've heard of a lot of startup examples blowing up, you know, because once you reach a certain size, it's impossible to, you know, sort of revert.”
Welch's research shows only 7% of people can accurately name their values
“So I did some research that proved that you are absolutely in the majority, and that only 17% of people could even begin to define values, and I was giving them very wide berth in this research, and only seven percent could actually name their values and exclu…”
Company 'operating principles' are more effective than personal 'values'
“Stripe would call them operating principles, actually, which I think is actually better, because values is almost like, you can't really tell people what to value, like everyone has their own value set, but you can tell people like, hey, here's, Here's how we …”
Group drafting of company value definitions is unproductive and should be avoided
“Ultimately, coming up with the definitions is not really something you can do as a group because it's just not very productive. It's better if somebody who knows how to write well can come up with the first stab of the sentences, if it's operating principles, …”
Irvine: Praise from an 'anti-mentor' signals you are making a mistake
“I have this concept of an anti-mentor, and that is there are people who, if they praise you, it's a sign that you're doing something very wrong because they have such different values than you do that if they think you're doing the right thing, whoa, hold on, …”