>> You know they say culture eats strategy for breakfast, and I think it's very true.
And in building a company culture is really, really critical.
And you know, in interviews, I ask people you know we're a sports charity company and you have
to be passionate about those two things.
And I ask in an interview, if I told you you had to go to Rose Bowl
for New Year's Eve you know two days before, do you expect to be paid overtime for that?
You know or do you see that as a bonus?
Because that happens all the time in our world.
My general manager just had to go down to the Final Four on short notice.
And you know it wasn't a negotiation.
You know we're a culture where every opportunity that we have to make the business better
and help more people, you know we're going to drop everything and do.
And it's been really important for us.
And you know part of my degree is in engineering.
And when I came out of school I had seven job offers,
and I chose a company because of the culture.
And it was that culture that ultimately allowed me to leave and start the charity full-time
because their priorities aligned with mine.
And they gave me the assurance that my job would be there if the charity didn't work out.
And they actually gave me some seed funds to help get it started as I was leaving.
So you know I've told a lot of students today that you know whenever you interview
with a company, one of the important things in evaluating the culture is look
at the people you're going to be working for and determine
if they've created a life that's desirable to you.