Shopify CEO, @tobi, with a refutation of the philosophy that you should treat your coworkers & employer as a family. His argument is that managers find it harder fire poor performers and employees forget they can be fired. Shopify's a team not a family. businessinsider.com/shopify-…

I wouldn’t want to have that attitude, nor work for anyone who has that attitude, nor spend a major part of my life in a company that works like that. Probably won’t make it to billionaire status that way

Seems like an honest and factually correct statement though. I don't know this CEO, but I find it hard to disagree with this statement. Some colleagues I consider friends, but I don't consider anybody family. And I don't expect to be treated as family either. Why would you?