Remember coffee with your squats – Building a company culture
summary
Company culture is shaped by concrete rituals and measurable outcomes: a student team turns Fun Run into #1 US App Store, scales to 17 people and later hits 100 million organic downloads, moves offices to preserve a communal hub, keeps no-shoes policy and core hours (be present at 8:55) with a beer-penalty list for lateness, runs a 9:00 morning check-in and short templated weekly meetings, practices retrospectives and 5→20 squats per coffee cup to force breaks and social bonding.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Bergen to gaming startup
- 1:14Fun Run global success
- 2:58Culture with coffee and shoes
- 4:24Celebrating failures and milestones
- 5:50Fridays and efficient meetings
- 7:14Growing from eight to seventeen
- 8:42Office design and culture
- 10:09Core hours and beer punishment
- 11:35Morning check-ins and visibility
- 12:59Recruitment storytelling
- 14:29Team bonding and achievements
- 15:35Remember coffee with squats
- 16:20Culture lived daily
- 17:05Q&A scaling lessons
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