Jesse Zhang

And a lot of good investors know how important that is.

And so

If they feel like you are becoming a place where good talent is congregating, then folks will index on that more.

I would say there's definitely a level of intensity that's important.

And yeah, you definitely want to tell people that upfront because you want them to self-select into this culture.

So everyone that has joined Decagon, I would say they want to work hard.

They want to be around other people that are really smart and are like them.

And they're motivated by the view that says maybe the prime of their career where, hey, I'm going to work hard, but we know that because of that, I'm going to build lifelong relationships with like other amazing people.

I'm going to have good financial outcomes.

I'm going to be able to leapfrog steps in my career because the growth is just happening so quickly.

So it's you're attracting people like that.

I think that alone creates like a pretty strong foundation for the culture because you have people that are there to work.

We have a lot of people that live right next to the office.

Part of that is because we've selected for people that like being in the office with other people, right?

We're in the office a lot.

Those are the foundations.

And then I think what you have to be careful on top of that is we really want our office to be a place where people enjoy coming to work every day.

Because we spend a lot of time in there, it's like you want people to be happy to be there.

They feel like everyone there is supporting them.

Between the organizations, you want people to feel like they're pretty aligned and folks are working towards the same goal.