Van de Maele: Organizational scaling should mimic software API and SLA architecture
Felix Van de Maele · Fireside Chat: Felix Van de Maele (Co-Founder & CEO, Collibra) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark) · Mar 17, 2022 · at 21:15
Felix Van de Maele, co-founder and CEO of Collibra and former software engineer, shares his mental model for structuring high-growth startup organizations.
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“Just like to have APIs and SLAs and a product, you need to do the same thing on the company level, right? You have to modularize, you have the components, you have to kind of org chart.”
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