I've said this before: toxic cultures are value-destroying stains on a company's resources. A strong host can survive a bad disease, a weak one dies. So yeah,

I've said this before: toxic cultures are value-destroying stains on a company's resources. A strong host can survive a bad disease, a weak one dies. So yeah, there's plenty of finance firms, VC backed unicorns and Fortune 500 behemoths with lousy cultures. But I'll bet that the cultures weren't that toxic _for the initial employees_. NB People are different. What's toxic for one person isn't for another. However, in large firms the law of large numbers means that toxic looks much the same. So you can start a firm with founders and initial employees who are shouty abusive a-holes and it's not a problem. Scale to a thousand employees and it most definitely is.