High talent density enables everything else

We can't really have any of the other aspects of the culture, including candor, learning, seeking excellence in improvement, freedom and responsibility if you don't start with high talent density.

If we want to create a work environment where we are not prescriptive about how people solve problems or the scope of problems that they could tackle, and we don't have a lot of process around that work, that would be very hard if not dangerous if we didn't have a high talent density.

I feel like they screened really hard for a few traits in particular. One is like very independent-minded people who weren't afraid to push back. Two is people with broader intellectual interests.

When you recognize that you get business value from it, then it all of a sudden becomes something that you look out for and you take care of. That's it... when it goes from frankly something people feel they need to do to be PC or for cultural reasons or because they're getting social pressure to do it to something that you really recognize concretely, no, I get value from this and you are willing to take the other steps to have a culture at your company that utilizes it, then it becomes easy because when you bring folks in from diverse backgrounds, they retain.