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The HubSpot Culture Code [slides]

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Re: The HubSpot Culture Code [slides]

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The product I'm most proud of having worked on. Hundreds of hours invested for over a decade. Yes, it's a slide deck -- but think of it as a template. Shared with the community with love.

Thank you for sharing this! Love the focus on culture and community that HubSpot has built

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Software companies that claim they "Work to make a Difference" strike me as cultish and are an immediate turn off. I work for a living, I volunteer and work in my community to make a difference.

All other things being equal, isn't it better to work for a company that does something you think helps the world as opposed to one that you think is harmful or even merely neutral?

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Software companies that claim they "Work to make a Difference" strike me as cultish and are an immediate turn off. I work for a living, I volunteer and work in my community to make a difference.

You won't be the only to raise eyebrows at such messaging coming from HubSpot, see "My year in startup hell": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11369632

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Software companies that claim they "Work to make a Difference" strike me as cultish and are an immediate turn off. I work for a living, I volunteer and work in my community to make a difference.

All other things being equal, isn't it better to work for a company that does something you think helps the world as opposed to one that you think is harmful or even merely neutral?

Yes, but the companies most vocal about how they are good for the world are so often doing so out of need to compensate for reality.

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I worked at several companies claiming to be about change and mission and all that. To me new coating to the same corporate shit. Same injustices, same corporate frustration, but with different lingo. I recognized a lot of the things dan lyon wrote about hubspot in "Disrupted"

Re: The HubSpot Culture Code [slides]

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That's nice. Thanks for sharing it.

Expect loads of cynicism. I've found that talking about having Principles and Integrity in business and professional endeavors, usually results in being accused of "virtue signaling," which is ridiculous, as we are only talking about simple, basic, realistic human values; not some kind of Mother Theresa code.

That said, it is extremely easy to let a focus on "culture" turn into a toxic monoculture. It's always easier to exclude those that deviate from the norm, than it is to adapt to them.

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