Lecture 10 - Culture (Brian Chesky, Alfred Lin)

Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Alfred-lin-lecture-10-company-culture-and-building-a-team-part-i-annotated Brian Chesky, Founder of Airbnb, and Alfred Lin, Former COO of Zappos and Partner at Sequoia Capital discuss how to build a great company culture. See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec10/ Discuss this lecture: https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64039 This video is under Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

Alfred LinhostBrian Cheskyguest

Oct 24, 201450mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: October 24, 2014
Duration: 50m
Channel: YC Root Access
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Alfred-lin-lecture-10-company-culture-and-building-a-team-part-i-annotated Brian Chesky, Founder of Airbnb, and Alfred Lin, Former COO of Zappos and Partner at Sequoia Capital discuss how to build a great company culture. See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec10/ Discuss this lecture: https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64039 This video is under Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

SPEAKERS

Alfred Lin
host
Sequoia Capital partner and former Zappos executive known for investing in and advising startups on culture and operations.
Brian Chesky
guest
Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, speaking about building and scaling company culture.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of YC Root Access, featuring Alfred Lin and Brian Chesky, Lecture 10 - Culture (Brian Chesky, Alfred Lin) explores how Airbnb and Zappos built culture to scale companies responsibly Alfred Lin defines company culture as the daily core values and actions of a team in pursuit of a mission, and argues it is a key input to long-term results and organizational speed.

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