Good Monday morning, ProductPod friends! 💤😸☕️ Ok, so @dcancel is an amazing founder, leader, guest, and human. Seriously. This episode of Mission & Values features the company culture at Drift. It's full of inspiring quotes, lessons learned in David's career as a 4x successful startup founder, and all kinds of fun little details about the vibe over there at Drift, which is based in the Boston area. What do you think?! If you give it a listen, please hit me with some feedback. Oh, btw, David and Drift have their own podcast, which is a must-listen if you're into startups: https://www.producthunt.com/sear... He shares how they record those in this episode, if you want to learn more. --- MISSION Help every business in the world know, grow and amaze their customers. ABOUT Drift lets you talk to your website or mobile app visitors and customers in real-time, from anywhere. Get started with live chat for free. https://www.producthunt.com/tech... TOPICS What David’s learned about company culture after 4 successful exits as a founder Now on their third company, David and his co-founder build teams first, products later Look inside Drift HQ (music blasting, murals on the walls, gymnastics rings…) The importance of looking at employee/company stage fit in hiring Drift’s Servant Leadership model with a twist The benefits of keeping everyone (including engineers) in frequent contact with customers Why innate scrappiness is required for early startup teams (even if you have $15M in funding) Diversity within the team at Drift and recruiting resilient employees Feeding a culture obsessed with with learning (book club, monthly speakers, podcast…) Management and leadership: one-on-ones, employee emotion tracking, and staying ahead of personal growth The benefits of building a startup in Massachusetts (and outside of Silicon Valley) Full show notes: http://missionandvalues.co/episo...