When Evan, John, and I needed to make a decision, we could usually do it pretty quickly. We were all deep every day in customer conversations, the architecture of our software, and how all the pieces fit together. We could imagine how our decisions today would play out over time. Even though we each had our areas of expertise (Evan wrote a lot of the infrastructure, John wrote a lot of the core product services, I wrote a lot of the API, web, and billing layers) we all knew enough to act as one brain. When you hold the whole picture in your heads and you work together every day, you can make progress incredibly fast. That’s the power of a small team—there are no proxies; you’re just directly solving customer problems with your code.That’s the magic that makes startups so special and so productive. There’s so little overhead to manage, the coordination energy is negligible, and people tend to have a tremendous intrinsic drive because they’re so close … [Read more...] about The “dozen-bagel” secret to preserving startup spirit as your company grows
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Overcoming Corporate Culture Challenges When Your Company Spans The Globe
Founder Roy de Souza got the idea for an online advertising technology company during the dot-com bubble, which as a young man he didn’t recognize as a bubble. But in 2001, when a combination of 9/11 and the collapse of the bubble brought internet advertising to a halt, de Souza had no choice. To keep the company going, he had to build his development team in India, where costs were lower. … [Read more...] about Overcoming Corporate Culture Challenges When Your Company Spans The Globe
3 organizational rules key to building a healthy remote company
Stronger commitment to purpose Many organizations have been experimenting with virtual workers for years, or already have specific positions that have always worked remotely. When we hear stories of big-name companies such as Facebook and Google stating that they will give employees the option of working from home for the foreseeable future, it’s tempting for the masses to want to do the same. … [Read more...] about 3 organizational rules key to building a healthy remote company
My company has gone through 3 growth cycles in 18 months. Here’s how I navigated them
Proven playbooks aren’t working as well. Strategies and tactics we’ve relied on in the past aren’t delivering the expected results. Trusted lieutenants are struggling to perform at their best. Top performers—people I know are up to challenge—begin to get frustrated or underperform. Like clockwork, once I connect the dots on the two points above, in the next business review I’ll see that numbers are starting to slip. So what do you do? Here are the steps I follow, along with tactical examples from our most recent growth spurt when we launched our home-delivery program. … [Read more...] about My company has gone through 3 growth cycles in 18 months. Here’s how I navigated them
These are the best places to work in 2021, according to employees
Those that rose to the top have been ranked on Glassdoor’s 13th annual Employees’ Choice Awards for the Best Places to Work across the U.S., Canada, U.K., France, and Germany. In the United States, the 100 Best Places to Work list features outstanding companies with 1,000 or more employees, while those with fewer are ranked in the 50 Best Small and Medium Companies list. The winners are ranked on a five-point scale based on the overall rating they received over the past year. For context, of the 1.3 million employers reviewed on Glassdoor, the average company’s rating clocks in at 3.5, and the number one on the Top 100 list scored a 4.6. … [Read more...] about These are the best places to work in 2021, according to employees
