All the great teams I&#x27;ve worked on had the &quot;family-like&quot; property Paul Graham talks about here.<p>The first really great company I worked at was explicit about being family-oriented; they&#x27;d bring everyone&#x27;s family to the office and cook dinners, had Christmas at the founders house, that sort of thing.<p>I left that company and joined a different sort of family, which was more of a bar-fighting sort of family but <i>still had that vibe</i>.<p>Then I started my first company, which cratered, and which did not have that family feel at all, despite it being largely a group of people who were friends in real life.<p>I felt like we got part of the way there with Matasano (at least in the Chicago office, which was our largest), but not all of the way. It&#x27;s tricky to pull off!<p>I really only want to work at companies that have that feel, for the rest of my career. It makes a huge difference. Also: if Jessica Livingston can generate that kind of culture on demand, that&#x27;s definitely a reason to be impressed by her!