Brie Wolfson
@briewolfson
mostly researching, thinking, and writing about company culture via The Kool-Aid Factory and Founder Fodder (newsletter). Used to Stripe (Stripe Press, BizOps) and Figma (Figma for Education).
Brie Wolfson
The essential task in a startup is to create wealth; the dimension of wealth you have most control over is how much you improve users' lives; and the hardest part of that is knowing what to make for them. Once you know what to make, it's mere effort to make it, and most decent hackers are capable of that.
Paul Graham • Startups in 13 Sentences
"Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure."–Marvin Conway
Wikipedia • Conway's law
Noyce knew exactly what he possessed in this integrated circuit, or microchip, as the press would call it. Noyce knew that he had discovered the road to El Dorado.
Tom Wolfe. • The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce
Even if you want to be big someday, remember that you never need to act like a big boring company.
Derek Sivers • Little things make all the difference | Derek Sivers
The thing that will endure for 100 years, the way it has for most 100 year companies, is the culture. The culture is what creates the foundation for all future innovation. If you break the culture, you break the machine that creates your products.
Brian Chesky • Don’t Fuck Up the Culture
I am a giant advocate for technical founders running their own companies, but one consistent way that technical founders deeply harm their businesses is by screwing up the budgeting process. Yes, the budgeting process. How ridiculous is that?
Ben Horowitz • How to Ruin Your Company with One Bad Process
I thought my job was to be right. I thought that was how I proved my worth to the company. But that was all wrong. My job was to get things done and doing anything meaningful past a certain point requires more than one person. If you are right but nobody wants to work with you, then how valuable are you really? How much can you realistically... See more