Brightwheel uses Amazon-style written docs and hiring scorecards
Dave Vasen · 20VC: Why Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel · Dec 14, 2018 · at 11:22
Dave Vasen is the founder and CEO of Brightwheel. He outlines the specific internal processes Brightwheel uses for operational decisions and culture evaluation in interviews.
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“We borrow from Amazon that we use docs, for example, to facilitate decision-making and writing down narratives. And if someone is going to struggle or hate working in that type of environment, I think it's better for all of us to figure that out at the outset. And so these are things now that more recently I have Put into our actual scorecard.”
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