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Jun 2025
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The Culture Architect: Scaling People, C...

CHRIS RAINEY
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Alex Nicolaus, CPO at Paysend and author of Startup Culture, shares how startups can design high-performance culture from day one by hiring for behaviors, embedding values early, and building leadership systems that scale with growth. 
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