shopify ceo says they’re not a family

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May 12, 2021 17 Comments

My worst job experiences have been with companies or orgs that try to do the “we are family” thing - crosses boundaries and introduces too much emotion IMO.

Choice tidbits from Shopify CEO’s email:

- The dangers of "family thinking" are that it becomes incredibly hard to let poor performers go.

- Shopify's worldview is well documented - we believe in liberal values and equality of opportunity. Sometimes we see opportunities to help nudge these causes forward. We do this because this directly helps our business and our merchants and not because of some moralistic overreach.

- Beyond straight performance output, everyone that engages in endless Slack trolling, victimhood thinking, us-vs-them divisiveness, and zero sum thinking must be seen for the threat they are: they break teams.

You can read the full email here:
https://outline.com/Kk8huV

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