Sourav Kundu (Group PM, BrowserStack) — Incorruptible on why founders lose culture control: 'set it during the time of incorporation itself'

Sourav Kundu — Group Product Manager at BrowserStack, ex-nuclear-systems engineer, IIM Bangalore top-10% — cites Incorruptible on structural governance and works through the Anthropic non-profit trust and Google dual-class share examples as concrete cases of founders keeping control of company culture beyond incorporation.

“Founders want to set the company culture but often they are not able to control it after a point when they lose control to shareholders / board unless they structurally set the company's direction differently. Recently came to know from a podcast by Eric Ries and he also wrote in his book Incorruptible, that for companies to be able to control the value system, they need to set it during the time of incorporation itself such that nothing in future can go sideways from the value system. Anthropic is a good example where key decisions are always overseen by a non-profit trust that structurally cannot hold equity in the company and cannot benefit from the company's gains and its sole job is AI safety.” — Sourav Kundu on LinkedIn