People & Culture

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Collection of resources on “People & Culture”.

Joshua Reeves, CEO of Gusto (YC W12), discusses Gusto’s new guide to employee equity. Download Gusto’s Employee Equity Guide Craig : Why did you guys create this? Josh…
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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
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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 st
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After startups raise money, their next biggest problem becomes hiring.  It turns out it’s both really hard and really important to hire good people; in fact, it’s probably the most important thing...
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We spend a lot of time advising startups. Though one-on-one advice will always be crucial, we thought it might help us scale Y Combinator if we could distill the most generalizable parts of this advice into a sort of playbook we could give YC and YC Fellowship companies. Then we thought we should
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We talked to Katie Evans-Reber and Steffi Wu of Gusto (YC W12) about their new guide on how to create an employee handbook. You can download it for free here.
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Claire McDonnell - https://twitter.com/clairethere - is cofounder and COO of True Link Financial (YC S13) - https://www.truelinkfinancial.com/. True Link is a financial services firm that offers money management, investment, and insurance products, primarily for retirees. Jennifer Kim - https://twi
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Startups are always changing, evolving, growing (hopefully). Whether it’s the business plan, or the broader team dynamic; startups mobilize themselves like genetic algorithms, iterating towards the best scheme for market. So how are you supposed to build a good culture that can evolve and grow with
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Jason Kilar is the former CEO of Hulu and Vessel, and an early executive at Amazon. He joined us at The Scaleup Offsite to talk about establishing and scaling a company’s culture. Key takeaways: Culture starts with what you do when nobody is looking. How a trip Disney World as a kid made Jason ob
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Kat Manalac, Partner and Director of Outreach at YC, hosts a panel with Makinde Adeagbo (dev/color), Cat Perez (HealthSherpa), Jennifer Kim (Lever), Ashu Desai (Make School), Mitchell Lee (Penny) and Cristina Cordova (Stripe) to discuss the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workforce for
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Hiring your first engineer at a startup is incredibly hard. Start by being clear on what exactly you’re looking for. Once you know what you’re looking for, you’re ready to start finding candidates. I’ll go through the strategies available, starting with what I believe is most effective and working t
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Once you've found an engineer you want to hire, the final step is presenting them an offer to join your team and convincing them to accept it. This post offers advice for increasing the percentage of the offers you make that are accepted.
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