Silicon Valley has long been obsessed with culture, and for good reason. As management guru Peter Drucker once said, “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” In other words, culture can be even more important than your product or go-to-market strategy.
Your company’s culture is unique—and worth protecting
The starting point for a company’s culture is often a bold ideal like the “move fast break things” of Facebook’s early days. From there, culture can include events like hackathons, weekly all-hands meetings, and other features, events and policies that can help solidify a company’s unique direction, mission and values.
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You’ll hear firsthand experiences and insights from guest speakers Charlie Jarvis, CEO of Frank and Trevor Sumner, CEO of Perch. Together with Lewis Hower, Managing Director of Startup Banking for SVB and Vouch General Counsel Kelly Wulff, we’ll discuss how companies can successfully navigate their culture through a remote work environment where there’s no:
· In-person, face-to-face contact with colleagues
· Regularly scheduled team-building activities
· Spontaneous walks, watercooler encounters, or chats over coffee
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This is the second of three virtual panel discussions about how founders can manage risk as they adapt their startups to our new work life.
Kelly Wulff is general counsel of Vouch Insurance, a startup that develops and markets insurance products that are tailor made for startups. Vouch is SVB’s partner and sponsor in this series of articles and webinars on topics related to mitigating risk. Prior to Vouch, Kelly was vice president of legal at Zenefits, and worked on the legal team at Adobe. She is a graduate of University of Santa Clara Law School.
Charlie Javice is a serial entrepreneur, who is founder and CEO of Frank, a fin tech startup in New York. Frank helps students with financial aid so they can attend the colleges they love. Prior to Frank, Charlie founded PoverUP, a platform that helps connect students and academics with sustainable solutions and poverty. Charlie is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Trevor Sumner is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He is currently founder and CEO of Perch, which makes 3D sensing technology that helps retail displays to detect and react when a customer approaches or picks up a product. The technology reacts with experiences that surprise and delight customers, and ultimately help to lift sales. Before that, Trevor was CEO of Summoner, an advisory and investment firm focused on high-growth ventures. He previously held a series of executive and advisory roles at startups and other companies. He is a graduate of Princeton University.
As a Managing Director at Silicon Valley Bank, Lewis Hower connects SVB and VC/startup communities and is a Managing Director with our Early Stage Practice.
Lewis has spent the past decade working to research, develop, and invest in innovation at the intersection of rapid business growth, large markets, and massive global challenges. Through various stints in research, diligence, fundraising, investment management, education and formation of new concepts he has been at the bleeding edge of innovative investments that are changing the world.
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