E989: The Next Unicorns: Culture Amp CEO & Co-founder Didier Elzinga is building an employee analytics platform that keeps workers satisfied & motivated, shares insights on the changing role of culture, what modern employees value & maintaining culture while scaling – E7 of 10-ep miniseries

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

0:52 Jason intros Culture Amp's Didier Elzinga
2:44 How Didier's prior career in Visual Effects led him to start Culture Amp
8:24 Issues with yearly performance evaluations
14:15 Did Silicon Valley take culture too far?
17:35 What defines good culture?
24:24 Generational differences in workplace culture
28:30 How should companies view the gig economy in terms of culture and compensation?
37:12 How should compensation work in this era?
43:20 Didier demos Culture Amp
58:45 Jason gives Sir Charles positive/negative feedback
1:07:20 "Buying" culture and anti-fragility

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0:50.2	Hey everybody, welcome back to this week in startups. It's our continuing series searching for the next
0:56.2	unicorns or as we say here in Silicon Valley, pseudocorns. These could someday soon be a unicorn and you know we started the series and two of the companies
1:05.6	That we covered in the early part of the series became unicorns before we even finished the 10 episode run
1:10.8	And that's how good Emmy Award Ring Producer Jackie is.
1:14.4	She found the companies that were very quickly ramping up,
1:18.1	so congratulations to them.
1:19.6	Now why is this important?
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