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The Value of Company Culture

By Mitch Kapor - Stanford
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Lecture Description

Former Lotus 1-2-3 founder Mitch Kapor speaks candidly about the most valuable legacy of his wildly successful 1980's technology company: the management of free-thinking creatives.  He stands by the quality of his products, but it was his huge investment in human resources, Libertarian management style, and incentives toward great job satisfaction and accountability that he's most proud of.  He claims that the thousands of Lotus alumni have helped set the standard for how tech companies are managed on the East Coast and beyond.

Course Index

  1. Competing with Giants
  2. A Successful Business Solves Problems
  3. Disadvantages of Venture Capital
  4. Choosing an Investor
  5. The Great Talent Vacuum Cleaner
  6. The Value of Company Culture
  7. Social Responsibility from the Ground Up
  8. Balancing Information Asymmetry for the Entrepreneur