Cultural Spawning: Founders Bringing Organizational Cultures to Their Startup

This paper was greatly improved by comments from Bala Vissa, Damon Phillips, Frederic Godart, Henning Piezunka, Lamar Pierce, Phanish Puranam, Phil Anderson, Sanghyun Park, Vibha Gaba, the participants of the HEC Paris strategy seminar, the 2023 HEC Paris Society and Organizations conference, and the 2023 Carnegie School Organizational Learning conference. This paper has been selected as the OMT Best Paper and runner-up for OMT Best Student Paper Award of 2021 Academy of Management.