Julio Avalos

5 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 6, 2019 by Julio Avalos · across every show →

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Jan 6, 2019 neutral
What-if
Avalos: Keeping GitHub manager-free would have required far more bureaucracy
“If we had wanted to, and I'm not sure that we wanted to, we would have needed way more process, and way more bureaucracy than what we thought, ah, we had an appetite for. And that in some way, the lack of process, the lack of structure, leads to confusion with…”
Julio Avalos Jan 6, 2019 ▶ 26:30 Successfully Managing The Hyper-Growth Stage
Jan 6, 2019 negative
Disclosure
Avalos: GitHub was overly infatuated with internal culture over customers
“I think that for a while there we maybe were overly infatuated with how we were working as a company, As opposed to what we were doing, and why we were doing it, and who we were doing it for.”
Julio Avalos Jan 6, 2019 ▶ 40:40 Successfully Managing The Hyper-Growth Stage
Jan 6, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
Avalos: GitHub operated with ~100 employees without managers, titles, or teams
“Where we were right around a hundred people, maybe a little bit over, no managers, Weren't going to have managers for another year and a half or close to two years, I think, from that point. And we didn't have titles. We didn't have managers. We didn't have re…”
Julio Avalos Jan 6, 2019 ▶ 2:35 Successfully Managing The Hyper-Growth Stage
Jan 6, 2019 negative
Disclosure
Avalos: GitHub built a billing engine unable to collect international taxes
“You're in a situation that, you know, that we found ourselves in where we built a billing engine that wasn't able to collect that in a particular jurisdiction, or you're not, you know, you're not creating, you're not collecting sales tax, whatever that happens…”
Julio Avalos Jan 6, 2019 ▶ 39:42 Successfully Managing The Hyper-Growth Stage
Jan 6, 2019 neutral
Insight
Avalos: Ambiguous decision-making causes greater productivity loss than process
“Ah, I think that you end up having way more loss of productivity and confusion within your organization when people don't know where to go for answers. When people don't know who the ultimate decision rests on.”
Julio Avalos Jan 6, 2019 ▶ 27:11 Successfully Managing The Hyper-Growth Stage
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