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

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Part two of culture and team, and we have Ben Silberman, the founder of Pinterest, and John and Patrick Collison, the founders of Stripe. Um, founders that have obviously sort of some of the best in the world at thinking about culture and how they build teams.

So, there's three areas that we're going to cover today. One will just be sort of general thoughts on culture as a follow-up to the last lecture. Then, we're really going to dig into what happens at the founding of these companies and building out the early team, and then how that changes and evolves as these guys have scaled their companies up to, you know, 100 plus. I don't even know how many people you have now, but quite a lot; they're very large organizations.

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