What were some of the priorities you had for establishing the corporate culture at SBNation?
We’ve emphasized creating a really strong culture that we hope to maintain as we grow. We are able to successfully manage the company with nearly half of our employees distributed across the country. So, we need a culture where people are trusted and expected to get their work done independently, but then communicate and collaborate in a very strong way, since the informal opportunities often don’t exist. People have to buy in. You can’t get lazy with process or things fall through the cracks. You can’t be a prima donna and expect to do well here or fit in. We fly everyone in for quarterly meetings to review priorities, brainstorm, analyze what worked and what didn’t and why and make plans. SBNation runs on passion – literally. It’s a site for sports fans by sports fans, built from the grassroots up. Have you seen a difference in how your contributors and employees here perform because of this? We are really fortunate that ours is a topic that is fun and generates so much conversation
