Company Culture
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Company Culture
Kevin Scott, now CTO of Microsoft, would ask in candidate interviews: “What do you want your next job to be after this company?” Most of your team members realistically won’t stick with the same company forever. This is even more true as you scale to 20, then 50, then 100 team members and so on. But the best way to empower them to do good work is... See more
David • 99 Pieces of Unsolicited, (Possibly) Ungooglable Startup Advice
Why YSK: Ever wondered why women want men to just *understand* everything, why some people have a *blunt style of talking, prefer honesty and get impatient with waffling* or why some people have *difficulty asking people outright for help, dislike conflict and often worry about imposing on people*? The answer is simple to explain but not as easy to... See more
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How we manage At our company, we strive to make every team member the best version of themselves. This is a very difficult thing to do, and so it's helpful to articulate how exactly we do it. Managing a person or a team is a very unnatural job. As an individual, your performance is typically mea...
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Build honesty into your culture, not transparency.
David • 99 Pieces of Unsolicited, (Possibly) Ungooglable Startup Advice
Our culture is four things: customer obsession instead of competitor obsession; willingness to think long term, with a longer investment horizon than most of our peers; eagerness to invent, which of course goes hand in hand with failure; and then, finally, taking professional pride in operational excellence.