How Culture Defines a Company and Enables a Laser Focus on Customers

Contrast Security has experienced tremendous growth over the past year, and company culture remains a critical priority. Alignment of unique business practices such as a hybrid workforce, use of OKRs to align individual metrics with companywide metrics, and a customer-centric focus have helped Contrast to scale its business and transform the AppSec marketplace through its DevOps-Native AppSec platform based on instrumentation. In this podcast, Babak Dehnad, the vice president of People at Contrast, discusses why Contrast was named an Inc. magazine Best Workplaces award winner and provides recommendations to other late-stage growth startups on how they can use company values and culture to propel their businesses forward. He argues that COVID-19 work-from-home mandates thrust these issues even further into the limelight, often being the difference between a productive and engaged workforce versus one that is without direction.