Matan Bar: Monthly HR reviews keep scaling startups ahead of org changes
Matan Bar · 20VC: Scaling to a $1.3Bn Valuation While in Stealth, The Power of Different Network Effects Within Payment Platforms & How To Leverage Your Board and Investor Base for the Most Value with Matan Bar, Founder & CEO @ Melio · Feb 11, 2021 · at 21:26
Matan Bar is the co-founder and CEO of Melio. He shares internal management cadences used to manage rapid team scaling.
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“We meet every month. We have an HR review to see, evaluate specific performance topics, and just try to understand whether the structure that we have is the right one for the goals that we're trying to set. And it's not like every month we're changing the structure, but it is a process and a conversation that this cadence allows, and then helps us make decisions in a timely manner to change structures of engineering teams or growth teams to be ahead of the next step and not make the organizational change six months late. This cadence, I think is one best practice that really helped us in doing that.”
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