If Team and Culture Matter Most for startup success, then what do founders need to know about creating great cultures that will continue to be great? As an advisor to many founders -- from early-stage startups to late-stage multi-billion$ companies -- I have seen a pattern emerge. This pattern becomes very clear when founders start talking about how to preserve a particular culture when change starts to stress the organization. The changes that stress the culture and pose new problems for founders include: Fast scaling or growth, and the need for founders to lead differently A merger or acquisition, and founders face the need to explain to their organization how the culture is going to chan
