Dharmesh Shah: Write Down Your Culture

I talk to entrepreneurs and people all the time that says we hire for culture fit. Like, we. We hire for cult. And then my question is that awesome that you hire for culture Fit. What's your culture? Just, like, describe it. I'm not, like, trying to be aggressive. I'm not a confrontational guy at all. But, like, what is it? I'm curious. And if you can't tell me what your culture is, that means when you say we hire for culture fit, that means you hire people just like yourself, and you're using culture as a shorthand for being able to, like, hire people just like yourself. So you should not be allowed to say that we hire for culture fit unless you can tell people what that culture is. Otherwise, you have these kind of all sorts of biases that kick in, and that's a very, very dangerous thing. So this is one of the, probably the most important reasons to write your culture down. It doesn't have to be 128 slide PowerPoint deck like we have, but it should be written down. Even if it's an email, like, it's. Something has to exist that people have access to so they know kind of what it is. And then a closing note is every company, however many people, is going to have a culture. Cultures exist, period. Any time more than one person is together and with a few. I'm not suggesting you go off and spend hundreds of hours, but every hour, five hours, 10 hours you spend in those early days have dramatic leverage. So might as well build a culture you're going to love and build a company you want to work for and work in. So thank you.