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How We Do Things Around Here

W. Tom Simmons

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

This book, which was initially just a list of Hinge's lessons learned, became a way for the company to share their story of trial and error and to create a culture of transparency and accountability. It emphasized the importance of taking big innovation leaps, not being afraid of failure, and developing a deep understanding of a problem before taking action.

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And we put it in this book called How We Do Things, which was at that point just a list of all our lessons.

— Episode: Hinge Dating App CEO: Everyone Said Hing...

Episode: Hinge Dating App CEO: Everyone Said Hinge Was A TE...

This book, which was initially just a list of Hinge's lessons learned, became a way for the company to share their story of trial and error and to create a culture of transparency and accountability. It emphasized the importance of taking big innovation leaps, not being afraid of failure, and developing a deep understanding of a problem before taking action.

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And we put it in this book called How We Do Things, which was at that point just a list of all our lessons.

It's really about, it's a story of our lessons learned. It's like we did it all the wrong ways from the top down about where we are as a business, what our needs are, what our problems are, so that people on the front lines can go solve it.

And so when we rebooted the company in 2015, at the end of 2015, beginning of 2016, at that point I didn't think about company culture or kind of at all, it was just like, it was just we were a bunch of people in a room trying to solve problems, like that's, and we were only 30 people.

And we put it in this book called How We Do Things,

It really rotates around the founder, but I didn't make as much sense anymore.

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