Re:DoorDash S-1
by Judgmentality on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:54PM
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That doesn't in any way explain how culture leads to profits. The strongest argument you're making is "better culture means better performance" but that's incredibly hand-wavy in this context, and performance isn't even tied to profits in any way in your example.
It might be why you'd want to work there, but it's not a reason to invest there.
Was it Ocaml and Jane street?
There was a talk at [Guess the programming language]-conf last year, where a director at a pretty big investment fund was talking about how their choice to use said language (as opposed to being another C++/Python shop) has very much effected their approach to finding solutions to problems for the better.
It's probably impossible to measure, but the confidence to do things differently company-wide could set you in good stead asymptotically. Even if culture just means not being Uber e.g. no "a very, very strange year at [CompanyName]" blog posts or similar.