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Ben O’Brien | Nick Orton | Shafiq Rhaman
Chicago, Illinois 28.9% 32.9% 51.5% Female 48.5% Male 45% 5.5%
• • • • LOCATION
Mission statement
CEO YEAR ONE 4 employees CTO COO CFO 1 1
1 1 Focus: Hiring & Structure
• • • • Hiring pt. 1 Who? Role of
a Leader • • • •
Hiring pt. 2 Cognitive & Personality Testing Personality Traits •
• • • • • Before In-Person:
structure Decentralized Organization • • • • Flat & Functional
Structure • • • •
structure
Sales Software Engineering Customer Service Finance 12 10 Focus: DECISION
MAKING, culture, policies YEAR two 37 employees 4 7 4 Founders
Decision making Operational, Tactical and Strategic Decisions • • •
Collaborating Style for Arguments •
culture Mix of Innovative and Team-Based • • Brain Games
- Brainstorming Event • • WTF Day (Whiskey Tango FoxTrot Day) • • • Work with Habitat for Humanity • •
policies PTO • • Holidays • Benefits • Electronics Usage
Policy • • Flexible Work Time •
Sales Software Engineering Customer Service Finance 26 20 Focus: TEAMS
& motivation YEAR three 70 employees 7 13 4 Founders
teams Top Management Team • Task Force • Product Development
• Cross-functional • All are Self-Managed Teams •
Motivation pt. 1 Job Characteristics • • Job Enlargement •
Job Enrichment • Job Design
Motivation pt. 2 • • Task Significance • Autonomy •
Feedback • • Task Identity
Sales Software Engineering Customer Service Finance 35 28 END OF
YEAR THREE 15 22 4 Founders 104 employees
Q&A