Aleksandr Yampolskiy (SecurityScorecard CEO) — 'companies don't usually go bad because of bad people. They go bad when the operating system starts rewarding the wrong behaviors'

Aleksandr Yampolskiy — co-founder and CEO of SecurityScorecard, the cybersecurity ratings company — calls Incorruptible out for the systems-design framing he lives in every day: the company doesn't go bad because the people did, it goes bad when the operating system is wired to reward the wrong things.

“One idea that really resonates with me: companies don't usually go bad because of bad people. They go bad when the operating system starts rewarding the wrong behaviors - politics over truth, process over speed, activity over outcomes, and short-term wins over long-term mission. Staying great requires more than values on a wall. It requires designing incentives, decision rights, and culture so the company keeps rewarding ownership, customer obsession, speed, and truth as it scales.” — Aleksandr Yampolskiy on LinkedIn