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A company full of mercenaries is fine when things are going well, but if things go bad you will have problems. Zynga's culture was notorious for this and it had
by onewaystreet 11y ago
A company full of mercenaries is fine when things are going well, but if things go bad you will have problems. Zynga's culture was notorious for this and it had big problems with retention after its bad IPO. Conversely, Facebook's culture was the exact opposite of Zynga's and it had very little turnover after its bad IPO.
- eropple 11y ago> A company full of mercenaries is fine when things are going well, but if things go bad you will have problems. You bet you will. I chose not so long ago to refuse to be exploited by whoever's paying me at the moment, and that makes it really hard for an employer to make me hurt myself for a company's "mission". Or for the paycheck. It's a much, much better life for a worker, and I can understand why founders would hate it.