Matt Straz: Strong People Ops becomes crucial past 100 employees
Matt Straz · 20VC: How To Upscale Management Teams Effectively, When Should The CEO Play The Role of "Lifeguard" & What Role Does The Board Play In The Team Upscaling with Matt Straz, Founder & CEO @ Namely · Dec 15, 2017 · at 19:21
Matt Straz is the founder and CEO of Namely, an HR software platform. He explains why human resources functions become essential during rapid company scaling.
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“Once you start to get to scale and you have more than a hundred people, you're going to end up with a pretty broad representation of the overall general population. And you're going to get a lot of different kinds of people. And there's going to be a point where you're just going to need experience Experienced people ops to deal with things that you might have never imagined having to deal with as a founder and a CEO. So whether it's risk mitigation or difficult conversations, especially if your turnover is spiking through that phase, there are very important legal and just human things that you need to be aware of during those transitional periods, and I find that a strong people ops team is crucial to that.”
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