This lecture so far seems like the mystical missing one that I left at the back of my head but didn't consider it as important to visit until you're already 100+ employees in.
By what Brian says, it seems extremely hard to hire anyone who doesn't have the same culture you're looking for. I say that, because I think of culture as being tightly twisted with your company products. How do you find people with the same cultural values, when they haven't grown with your product idea the same way that you have while building it?
I've seen that the best way to grow your company's culture is to hire people that your own employees recommend. That is, if you want to build your culture you'll want to hire people that your current employees have worked with before.
Brian didn't mention it, but I'll bet that their first engineer hire recommended friends or colleagues in the industry that s/he worked with in the past - whether that was at another company or even in an open source arena. From there, that network grew, much like a network of your first 100 people that love your product grows.
This lecture so far seems like the mystical missing one that I left at the back of my head but didn't consider it as important to visit until you're already 100+ employees in.
By what Brian says, it seems extremely hard to hire anyone who doesn't have the same culture you're looking for. I say that, because I think of culture as being tightly twisted with your company products. How do you find people with the same cultural values, when they haven't grown with your product idea the same way that you have while building it?
These are just my initial thoughts for now..