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Everyone giving everyone else credit for something is a good culture.

Everyone giving everyone else credit for any individual thing or for everything is not a good culture.

The first means that everyone at the company is being acknowledged as contributing, which usually means that they are in fact contributing.

If I'm the "tech guy" and I can't give credit to the business or marketing or finance guy because deep down I don't respect what they do or think that it's my contributions that are making the startup go, then we're in for a bumpy road.



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