Building a Culture That Actually Scales
Founders often ask me how to preserve culture through hypergrowth. The premise is wrong: culture is not preserved, it is re-earned at every headcount doubling.
Founders often ask me how to preserve culture through hypergrowth. The premise is wrong: culture is not preserved, it is re-earned at every headcount doubling.
There is a version of risk management that is really just anxiety with a spreadsheet attached. It produces motion, not protection.
Every decade produces a new orthodoxy about how companies should be run. The last one rewarded growth at any cost; the next will reward operators who can compound quietly, with discipline, through cycles that punish improvisation.