Jacqueline ElliottLeadership Strategist | CEO, Mother, Wife, Legacy-Builder

Proof that people don’t work for money 👀

18 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Short monologue from a YouTube video arguing that people join and stay with companies for mission, belonging, and significance rather than money. The speaker recounts their team moving to start the company without asking about pay, links hiring failures to recruiting for money instead of mission, and emphasizes people’s desire for significance and belonging.

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When we came here and we started our company, our whole team moved here, didn't ask one time what they were going to make to start working with us. They believed in what we believed, and they wanted to make a difference. They believed in the mission, and that's how we started. The reason why people can't find good people is because they're hiring for the wrong reasons. Andy started this morning talking about that people are just chasing money. They're not feeling that sense of belonging here. We're doing it way beyond that. And whatever you do right now, people still want to feel significant in whatever they're doing, doing, and I think a lot of people are losing that.