fromTeal An app for building Teal Organizations enabling people to work on what they love & make a living out of it

The problem • fromTeal is trying to address the pain of people who are working for someone else & spending their days doing work that they hate, instead of realizing themselves & their dreams, doing what they love & fulfilling their true potential

The problem • Not all people are entrepreneurs, but even those who aren’t usually feel the pain due to working as sub-ordinates that are constantly being told what to do & how to do it. • People aren't meant to be machines, & working like that makes them really miserable. • People should have enough freedom in their work to make decisions by themselves & apply their creativity & brain, & not just their hands • See Paul Graham’s analogy* of lions in the Savannah vs lions in the zoo *http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html

Understanding the problem • So why is it that so little entrepreneurs work on what they love & realize their dreams? It's just very difficult, risky & unlikely to succeed because: • It requires the ability to influence people to work with you, & invest their time & money for you • It requires the knowledge & experience of how to do things right • It requires the perseverance to iterate many times until you find the product-market fit • It requires the leadership & values to build an effective team & a successful organization

Understanding the problem • More & more people today are working remotely, e.g., from their home or a co-working space • But you very seldom see remote workers finding remote collaborators & starting a new business together • This is probably due to the difficulty in finding, building & managing an effective team, when all members are remote workers

Understanding the problem • And why can’t people win their freedom at work, & work without power hierarchy so that they’ll love their work & not be miserable as tiny cogs? • Because people aren’t aware of any alternative to corporate hierarchy which doesn’t involve managers telling their sub-ordinates what to do • But is there such an alternative?

The solution • In his book "Reinventing Organizations", Frederic Laloux describes a new way to organize people, which he claims is very effective & powerful • He claims that when you take a team of people, & give them a common goal & the freedom to reach it by themselves, they'll self-organize in an effective way & be much more successful than a group of people working in an hierarchy of managers & sub-ordinates • He calls such organizations: Teal Organizations

The solution • There are some great proofs of successful Teal organizations • Buurtzorg - the leading home-care company in Netherlands • Zappos - a leading online retailer acquired by Amazon • Telus - the 3rd largest cellular operator in Canada

The solution • fromTeal is an app that helps people build successful Teal Organizations, so that they’ll work on what they love, fulfill their true potential & love their work

What • It’s a blockchain-based app, serving as an incubator program for creating Teal Organizations: autonomous teams working without any power hierarchy to deliver value to customers • fromTeal basically facilitates the creation & management of Teal Organizations from their inception to their graduation as successful companies

What • fromTeal organizes users into successful companies by guiding them & facilitating their needs, such as: • defining & designing products • recruiting teams members to build & sell them • enable the team to work together with no managers • iterate on the products until they are in high demand • receive technical, business & marketing support

What • fromTeal allows entrepreneurs to kickstart their business & make it successful, without taking any risk - they can do all of this while continuing to work on their day job • It helps them recruit & collaborate with a distributed team of like-minded people, who are also motivated by the passion & desire to work on what they love, love their work & eventually make a living out of it

What • Unlike solutions for outsourcing work to help kickstart startups (e.g., Fiverr), fromTeal focuses on building a great team that will grow the new business & make it successful • Unlike existing startup incubators & accelerator programs, fromTeal helps build a new kind of organizations, that are driven by a desire to make customers & employees happier, instead of just making shareholders richer

Objectives • Success will be measured by the number of people in the intersection of: Population of the world fromTeal users Make a living out of it Work on what they love Love their work * See also the Japanese concept of Ikigai

Objectives • Within 3 years, 50K entrepreneurs will use the app to build their business (either create a team based on their idea, or join a team & work on it as equal partners) • 60% of the users will report that they get to work on what they love • 1% of the users will also make a living out of it

How • Let’s consider a complete use-case, illustrating how the app works:

This is Jenny, she’s a software developer working for some large corporation

Jenny hates her job because she’s working without a real purpose, as a tiny cog, being told what to work on & how to do everything

She hears about fromTeal, & decides to download 
 & check it out

She signs-up using her GitHub account Welcome to fromTeal

The app asks her to read “Reinventing Organizations”, in order to properly understand the principles behind Teal Organizations The goal of this app is to help users create Teal Organizations. To understand how they work, you’ll need to read this book: Buy the book Next> 1 Please read

Apply 3Jane Developing the Matrix Browser app 12 members , 1 product , 712 users She is then taken to a page listing the teams who are currently accepting new members Select a team 2 Apply HunFoo Developing the Matrix Browser app 12 members , 1 product , 712 users Apply ManualPilot Developing the ManualPilot app 2 members , 1 product , 4 users Apply fromTeal Developing the fromTeal app 6 members , 1 product , 44 users What is this? x

Apply 3Jane Developing the Matrix Browser app 12 members , 1 product , 712 users She is then taken to a page listing the teams who are currently accepting new members Select a team 2 Apply HunFoo Developing the Matrix Browser app 12 members , 1 product , 712 users Apply ManualPilot Developing the ManualPilot app 2 members , 1 product , 4 users Apply fromTeal Developing the fromTeal app 6 members , 1 product , 44 users What is this? x fromTeal consists of teams developing new products & building a business around them. The teams operate as small startups, where everyone work together as partners. In order for new members to gain experience in how teams work, they need to join an existing team & work there for at least 1 month. After that, they may start their own team if they want.

Once she chooses a team, she can apply to join it, by telling about herself Apply to join 3 Submit application ManualPilot team Your name… Tell us about yourself Stuff you’ve built… Things you love.. Link to video where you tell us about yourself… x

After applying, she can also start using the team’s product or apply to other teams All set! 4 ManualPilot team The team members will next review your application & decide whether to continue. In the meantime, you can learn more about the team start using their product or apply to other teams x Your application was submitted to

Jenny’s application to the ManualPilot team is submitted, & all team members receive a notification to review the application All set! 4 You’ve applied to 1 team, & will receive a notification about their decision & the next step in the process. Learn more on our
 teams & their products fromTeal A new user has applied to join the ManualPilot team 1 min

Marc, a member of the team, reviews Jenny’s application, & votes to continue the process with her All set! 4 You’ve applied to 1 team, & will receive a notification about their decision & the next step in the process. Learn more on our
 teams & their products Jenny Carp Stuff I built: - Glitch - nest une pipe Things I love: - Kung-fu, drawing & my cats. Video about myself: x New application to join our team: Applied 3 hours ago

Marc, a member of the team, reviews Jenny’s application, & votes to continue the process with her All set! 4 You’ve applied to 1 team, & will receive a notification about their decision & the next step in the process. Learn more on our
 teams & their products Jenny Carp Stuff I built: - Glitch - nest une pipe Things I love: - Kung-fu, drawing & my cats. Video about myself: x New application to join our team: Applied 3 hours ago Thanks, waiting for 
 some more votes..

After enough members of the team voted, the team members receive a notification to decide on the next step All set! 4 You’ve applied to 1 team, & will receive a notification about their decision & the next step in the process. Learn more on our
 teams & their products fromTeal Decision needed on the next step in an application 5 min

Marc, votes to continue the schedule an interview with Jenny All set! 4 You’ve applied to 1 team, & will receive a notification about their decision & the next step in the process. Learn more on our
 teams & their products Jenny Carp x New application to join our team: Applied 17 hours ago Internal discussion Schedule interview Vote on next step: Decline application 12 members voted

Marc, votes to continue the schedule an interview with Jenny All set! 4 You’ve applied to 1 team, & will receive a notification about their decision & the next step in the process. Learn more on our
 teams & their products Jenny Carp x New application to join our team: Applied 17 hours ago Internal discussion Schedule interview Thanks for voting! Decline application 12 members voted

Since most members voted to schedule an interview, Jenny is notified about it Jenn x New Internal Schedul Thanks Decline fromTeal The ManualPilot team wants to schedule an interview 2 min

Jenny & the team schedule the interview using a 3rd party service

Then Jenny has the interview with several team members

And after another vote & internal discussion, the team accepts Jenny’s application fromTeal Congrats! the ManualPilot team wants you to join! 0 min

Jenny is assigned 2 mentors that will guide her & help her initiation into the team.

The team’s dashboard displays the progress in the journey to build a product that users want & a team of people who work on what they love.

The team’s dashboard displays the progress in the journey to build a product that users want & a team of people who work on what they love. The team’s photo-montage video is generated automatically from the videos submitted by team members whenever they apply to join, propose an idea, develop a feature, make a customer happy &c. It is intended to show the story, people & passion behind the team & its products.

The team’s dashboard displays the progress in the journey to build a product that users want & a team of people who work on what they love. Every team gets a bank of its own blockchain currency, fully managed by the app. The number of coins represents the team’s valuation & grows as the team evolve. For example, coins are automatically added when: • members are recruited • the product is shipped • users start using it • demand for it grows The team’s photo-montage video is generated automatically from the videos submitted by team members whenever they apply to join, propose an idea, develop a feature, make a customer happy &c. It is intended to show the story, people & passion behind the team & its products.

The team’s dashboard displays the progress in the journey to build a product that users want & a team of people who work on what they love. All of the current users of the product are presented, sorted by how much they use the product & find it valuable. Every team gets a bank of its own blockchain currency, fully managed by the app. The number of coins represents the team’s valuation & grows as the team evolve. For example, coins are automatically added when: • members are recruited • the product is shipped • users start using it • demand for it grows The team’s photo-montage video is generated automatically from the videos submitted by team members whenever they apply to join, propose an idea, develop a feature, make a customer happy &c. It is intended to show the story, people & passion behind the team & its products.

The team’s dashboard displays the progress in the journey to build a product that users want & a team of people who work on what they love. All of the current users of the product are presented, sorted by how much they use the product & find it valuable. The product functionality is described in user-stories.
 All of the stories are displayed, sorted by how much they are completed & validated. Every team gets a bank of its own blockchain currency, fully managed by the app. The number of coins represents the team’s valuation & grows as the team evolve. For example, coins are automatically added when: • members are recruited • the product is shipped • users start using it • demand for it grows The team’s photo-montage video is generated automatically from the videos submitted by team members whenever they apply to join, propose an idea, develop a feature, make a customer happy &c. It is intended to show the story, people & passion behind the team & its products.

The team’s dashboard displays the progress in the journey to build a product that users want & a team of people who work on what they love. All of the current users of the product are presented, sorted by how much they use the product & find it valuable. The product development is managed in “Pull Requests” - contributions that are submitted, reviewed, verified & merged into the product. The product functionality is described in user-stories.
 All of the stories are displayed, sorted by how much they are completed & validated. Every team gets a bank of its own blockchain currency, fully managed by the app. The number of coins represents the team’s valuation & grows as the team evolve. For example, coins are automatically added when: • members are recruited • the product is shipped • users start using it • demand for it grows The team’s photo-montage video is generated automatically from the videos submitted by team members whenever they apply to join, propose an idea, develop a feature, make a customer happy &c. It is intended to show the story, people & passion behind the team & its products.

The team’s dashboard displays the progress in the journey to build a product that users want & a team of people who work on what they love. All of the current users of the product are presented, sorted by how much they use the product & find it valuable. All of the team members are displayed, sorted by how much they love their work, work on what they love & make a living out of it. The product development is managed in “Pull Requests” - contributions that are submitted, reviewed, verified & merged into the product. The product functionality is described in user-stories.
 All of the stories are displayed, sorted by how much they are completed & validated. Every team gets a bank of its own blockchain currency, fully managed by the app. The number of coins represents the team’s valuation & grows as the team evolve. For example, coins are automatically added when: • members are recruited • the product is shipped • users start using it • demand for it grows The team’s photo-montage video is generated automatically from the videos submitted by team members whenever they apply to join, propose an idea, develop a feature, make a customer happy &c. It is intended to show the story, people & passion behind the team & its products.

Jenny is contacted by her mentors who explain her about the purpose of the product & what stories their currently working on

Jenny takes a story from the team’s backlog, & starts working on it

She then submits a Pull-Request & the team members review & provide feedback on it.

Once her Pull-Request is approved & merged, Jenny is rewarded for her contribution fromTeal Jenny, PR #69 was merged. You’ve earned 10 mpCoins! 0 min

Once her Pull-Request is approved & merged, Jenny is rewarded for her contribution fromTeal Jenny, PR #69 was merged. You’ve earned 10 mpCoins! 0 min The coins earned are being taken from the team’s total bank of coins, representing the total company value. Once the team graduates & registers as an official company, the coins granted to team members get translated into equity.

She can see the total coins of the team, & how many each member has received for his work 10 mpCoins Jenny Carp