At 50 people, culture was proximity. At 150, it's chaos. Most founders think culture is about values posters and offsite retreats. It's not. It's about systems.
If any of these sound familiar, your culture wasn't built to scale.
"We were great at 50, broken at 150"
Values on the wall, not in behavior
New hires "don't get it" anymore
Culture varies by team and manager
Toxic performers get tolerated
Founder DNA lost in translation
Content from our Culture Myth pillar
The gap between stated values and actual behavior is where culture dies.
And what to build instead: systems that encode behavior, not just aspirations.
vs the 10 that don't. Build the ones that survive layers of management.
Transmission systems that work when you can't know everyone by name.
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