Float

“I don't view work-life balance as, you know, I work 40 hours a week and I don't work after six and I don't work weekends. That's not realistic in a startup. The totality of the amount of work you're going to do is going to be greater than that.”

“I think to hire our first, I think to hire our first two or three engineers outside of my co-founders, we probably had to touch in one form or another email, communicate with, 500 engineers.”

“So before we hired anyone, before we shared feedback, I, you know, we do debriefs and we'd say before anyone says anything, don't tell us what you think about the person on the count of three, thumbs up, thumbs down, so that you couldn't be biased by, you know…”

“That led us to decide there's no more lukewarm yeses. It's only fuck yeses, strong yeses.”

“I blocked time in my co-founder's calendars each week to say, you're not allowed to do anything from, you know, it was Tuesdays in particular. I think it was like, Eight a.m. To eight p.m. There's no internal meetings. This is recruiting time. You're either me…”

“I mean, the simplest way to achieve results as a small early stage startup is to shrink the timeline through which you measure progress. So instead of saying, what are we going to get done this month? You say, what are we going to get done this week? What are …”

“And so I think it was really that this idea that strategy and planning have little value at an early stage company. It's about execution.”

“So we introduced that book to the team early. It's a mandatory reading for everyone on the float team.”

“Getting from four people to 10 or 15 was the hardest. We spent hundreds of hours trying to convince engineers to join our team and no one wanted to.”

“So we would benchmark generally to 80 to 90 percentile on cash. And Our cash salaries are, were, and still are very competitive.”

“One is let's bring on a bunch of new customers. We're not going to have a revenue story, but let's bring on 60 customers. Let's see if we can get 60 customers, go from three to 60 in eight weeks or something like that. And that would be a great story that coul…”