Comment by motohagiography

maybe we need better tools for assessing the dynamics of orgs from the outside. it's not just personalities, it's incentives.

I have opinions about it based on funding stages, but what it really comes down to is that culture is a function of growth. as an employee with a career success comes from hunting growth. the only real growth is from market fit, and even if you have market fit, if you aren't growing non-linearly you're going to get into a negative sum attrition game in the org culture (e.g. linear long term private equity returns).

questions to find answers for on the way in are:

- does anyone actually use their product and like it?

- how is that number growing? (non-linear, linear, attritive)

- what was their last funding round or change in equity ownership? (e.g. who runs it and what do you have to do to satisfy their investment)

- what's their staff turnover and where do they go?