
Find the sacred pie

Here’s a checklist of points to keep in mind:
Ben Horowitz • What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
Every young person (and plenty of non-young people), trying to strike gold and solve problems, is architecting themselves after a dominant personality of our field.
These archetypes equally modeled themselves off of someone else that inspired them. Steve was obsessed with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid. He would even take the “intersection of t... See more
These archetypes equally modeled themselves off of someone else that inspired them. Steve was obsessed with Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid. He would even take the “intersection of t... See more
Reggie James • A Land Without Giants
Creating a culture is an evolutionary process.
Patty McCord • Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
Livingston: What has the potential to go most wrong in the first year when a startup is such a fragile organization? Perlman: The worst thing that can happen to a startup is if the founding team—or the people who are leading the thing—do not get along. And it's deadly when they don't get along in front of the troops. I've come to realize over the y
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