What It Takes: Vision, Mission & Culture

We're going to have a lot of fun this evening. I managed to just get round the tables and talk to each about this. What we're trying to do this evening is to make sure that you get a chance to engage on what you want. So, you were all actually not all necessarily, but a

number of you were very good about filling in the survey and telling me what it was you were coming to the class for. So, I'll give you some clues here about what I hope we'll cover, but I also think it's fine if something comes up in the middle of class and you say,

"Gosh, I have no idea why I was here, but then this occurred to me. I need some help with X." That's absolutely great. So, a lot of you came right to the point and said, for example, things like, "Well, how do we define our culture?" Well, that's the core of this workshop. And it's actually really

important to me that you do get somewhere with it today. So, that's why the whiteboards are here and that's why we want you you to come up with your own approach to this. How I approach this is not with answers at all. It's actually with questions for you cuz there is no such thing as an answer to how do you

define a culture. It's going to be unique to you. It's going to be specific to your venture and it's also going to be very importantly defined in person. Uh sorry, in concert with who you are as a person. So, another thing that I heard a lot about and a number of teams talked about

this is, "What about hiring? Can culture help me with hiring?" I know that's a big problem for a lot of people in the early days. Might be attracting your co-founder. So, one of the teams said, for example, you have one to three more co-founders to bring on. This was City Bricks. Is anybody from City Bricks