Culture
Our culture is anchored in excellence—meaning constant improvement—and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday—we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them.
Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving. Because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest.
Operating this way is hard—it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. The meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself.
The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on the criticality of Meritocracy.
Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else.
Selected Highlights
CEO Nir Bar Dea joins Sonali Basak at Bloomberg Invest in New York to discuss the major forces shaping today’s macroeconomic landscape, how Bridgewater is positioned to help clients adapt, the ongoing technological revolution of AI, and the important roles that meritocracy and talent play in a rapidly evolving world.
At Bloomberg Invest, CEO Nir Bar Dea describes Bridgewater’s pursuit of an idea meritocratic culture and how, in the midst of a generational transition, today’s leadership is re-underwriting and continuing to evolve it.
The unifying experience at Bridgewater is one of constant improvement — a relentless pursuit of excellence in our shared mission to understand how the world works, and the deep bonds forged between teams along the way. Hear reflections about our culture and community from employees who live it every day.