Sublime

Slack for persistent chat, Google Docs for collaborative editing, Box for content management, BlueJeans for next-wave video technology.

Kirsten Nevill-Manning,

quick-hitting employee surveys to anonymous social networks and even rating apps for meetings and meeting organizers.

Hara meant it, too. John McSorley, Nvidia’s former head of human resources, said that the company had a policy of hiring quickly—but also of firing fast if a new employee wasn’t working out. Jensen’s primary guidance to all of his hiring managers was simple: “Hire someone smarter

My job was to scale the operation, which involved technology, of course, but also the people—these people!—who were building it. I firmly believed that doing so should not come at the cost of knowing the humans behind the product and fostering their careers—their personal scaling—alongside Google’s.

She also agreed to be barred from being an officer or director in a public company for ten years.

Maureen Taylor,