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Alex Buder Shapiro

Alex Buder Shapiro

Head of People at Clay; former Chief People Officer at Jasper and Flatiron Health (acquired by Roche for $2.1B).

Jul 21, 2026

14:19
But could you talk more about the operating principles that exist at Clay? What does it actually mean for these two phrases that I just said of negative maintenance and non-attached action? And then how do they show up in the workplace?
14:32
Cultures are really built in the workplace.
14:34
image of their founders and the specificity and precision of what you put forward as operating principles has to really ring true.
14:42
Negative maintenance, I think, is the idea that you leave things better than you found it.
14:46
The inverse of high maintenance for many people is like being chill, being relaxed.
14:50
But truly the inverse of high maintenance is that you are quietly and continuously improving and creating the impact that you wish to see.
14:59
And we're a very, very impact-driven culture and really almost like allergic to some of like the shiny things potentially that other organizations get celebrated.
19:10
How do you teach people this? How do you bring that specificity into the day-to-day?

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