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Design Your Company Culture Like The World’s Largest Hedge Fund

David Teten

I made a lot of mistakes at Bridgewater, and this was by design. I created my blog way back in 2003 because of the scale it gives me (Principle #177, “Constantly think about how to produce leverage”). A successful organization designs, documents, and manages to a culture optimized for their particular situation.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The problem is that many programmers have loads of talent with no product sense and business students have great designs with no way to implement them. Programmers feel exploited when they build out a product that is successful but are reluctant to admit they wouldn’t have been able to design the product themselves.