> The most common is the engineer who, slaving for hours in the proverbial garage, programs his (or, infrequently, her) way to glory and gets showered with millions by venture capitalists. He is the tech cliché—nerdy and socially awkward.

At least 90% of the technical co-founders I know are well spoken, well dressed, and perfectly capable of attending social events.

It seems like 100% of the problems with this company come from letting sales people (or in this case, men) fresh out of college dictate the culture.

None of the startup founders I work with let their companies go this far, because at the end of the day they have work to do.

I've ran teams that had Whisky Friday, at 5pm we opened a bottle and invited members from all teams to come, sit down, talk, and have a drink. Team culture doesn't require being horribly irresponsible. People who didn't drink at all came and enjoyed themselves just fine. (I can say that because for the majority of the time I ran the team, I didn't drink)

Same team did have nerf guns, but we also had nuanced discussions about world politics, literature, and science.

On a related note, what is up with places having beer available around the clock? Does anyone actually get up at 1pm and have a drink?

tl;dr Give me a few million and I promise to build a responsible, respectful, team culture.