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The company expects to grow past a thousand people in the next year, meaning most employees won't have direct access to founders. To compensate, Temporal paired its four public values (unlock possibilities, reliable as gravity, feedback that fuels, fly together) with previously unpublished 'anti-behaviors' describing how each value goes wrong, plus written-down mental models that used to spread only through proximity to founders. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How does Temporal define its company values and what happens when they conflict? Temporal has four public values: unlock possibilities, reliable as gravity, feedback that fuels, and fly together. For each, the company also documents an unpublished 'anti-behavior' describing how that value goes wrong, such as curiosity turning into analysis paralysis or chasing perfection over progress. Because values alone don't resolve conflicts between them, Temporal also writes down the underlying mental models leaders use to make tradeoffs, since those judgments used to spread only by proximity to founders. _Engineers weighing a role during a company's growth phase can follow culture debates like this on daily.dev._ ### How many growth phases has Temporal gone through recently and over what time period? Temporal has crossed four growth phases in 18 months, according to its internal 'phase shift' framework used to describe organizational transitions. The company refers to its current hypergrowth stage internally as the 'messy middle,' marked by slower-than-expected results, onboarding delays, more meetings, and decisions that used to take one conversation now taking five over a week. _Anyone evaluating a fast-scaling employer can track these culture and growth stories on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Continuous Delivery Office Hours Ep.11: Haute culture](https://daily.dev/posts/continuous-delivery-office-hours-ep-11-haute-culture-yd2udjvkb) · OctopusDeploy · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [My role as a founder CTO: Year Eight](https://daily.dev/posts/my-role-as-a-founder-cto-year-eight-kuxbksj0a) · Hacker News · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Building the Company We Always Wanted to Work In](https://daily.dev/posts/building-the-company-we-always-wanted-to-work-in-wng5ri46f) · WunderGraph · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#leadership](https://daily.dev/tags/leadership), [#company-culture](https://daily.dev/tags/company-culture) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/temporal-s-senior-vp-of-people-kate-caulfield-on-company-culture-and-career-growth-at-temporal-93cghngye) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Temporal’s Senior VP of People, Kate Caulfield, on company culture and career growth at Temporal","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/temporal-s-senior-vp-of-people-kate-caulfield-on-company-culture-and-career-growth-at-temporal-93cghngye","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/temporal-s-senior-vp-of-people-kate-caulfield-on-company-culture-and-career-growth-at-temporal-93cghngye"},"datePublished":"2026-10-27T13:07:33.448Z","dateModified":"2026-10-27T13:08:05.734Z","description":"Temporal's SVP of People, Kate Caulfield, describes how the company manages culture while scaling through hypergrowth. 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