The CEO of a crypto startup cofounded by Sam Altman thinks his company’s mission is so important that employees should care about their work and nothing else.
Tools for Humanity CEO Alex Blania reportedly said during a staff meeting in January that any employee who thought differently had no place at the company.
“We will neither fail, nor will we be an average outcome, and that’s what we want and that’s all I care about every day and all you should care about every day, and nothing else should matter,” he said in a recording reviewed by Business Insider. “If you should care about something else, and if you want something else, you should just not be here. It’s as simple as that.”
In a slide deck reportedly displayed at the company’s now-former office in San Francisco, an outline of blunt work values were also justified because of the company’s ambitious mission.
“We are very (very) hard working. We believe this is a once in a lifetime project and that success is important for humanity,” one of the slides read, according to a video reviewed by Business Insider. “Therefore, we work weekends, we’re always on call, and we push as hard as our circumstances allow us to. As a result we defy the odds, get to escape velocity and succeed on the mission.”
