Lecture 11 - Hiring and Culture, Part 2 (Patrick and John Collison, Ben Silbermann)

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

October 28, 2014

Duration

50m

Channel

YC Root Access

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Patrick-collison-lecture-11-company-culture-and-building-a-team-part-ii-annotated Stripe and Pinterest - two companies well known for their strong cultures. The founders - John Collison, Patrick Collison, and Ben Silberman - take Q&A from Sam in part 2 of Hiring and Culture. See the readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec11/ Discuss this lecture: https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64040 This video is under Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Sam Altman

  host

  Startup founder and former Y Combinator president who hosts and moderates YC lectures.

• Ben Silbermann

  guest

  Co-founder of Pinterest.

• John Collison

  guest

  Co-founder of Stripe.

• Patrick Collison

  guest

  Co-founder of Stripe.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of YC Root Access, featuring Sam Altman and Ben Silbermann, Lecture 11 - Hiring and Culture, Part 2 (Patrick and John Collison, Ben Silbermann) explores founders on early hiring, scaling culture, and radical transparency systems The speakers frame culture as the practical mechanism that preserves decision-making quality as founder bandwidth shrinks with headcount growth.

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