Song: Still Personally Leads Founder Onboarding Sessions at 700+ Employees
Doug Song · Founder Confidential: The Top Things No One Really Tells You About Scaling · Apr 6, 2020 · at 10:07
Doug Song, co-founder and CEO of Duo Security, discusses maintaining cultural alignment and direct connection with new hires during hypergrowth at SaaStr Annual.
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“So, so that's something that I still do. Right. Over 700 employees. Right. We do an onboarding orientation, and there's always a founder session, right, where we catalog kind of all the decisions we've made and talk about that, that shared history and journey we've been through. And again, it's just important, I think, to impart that kind of orientation and knowledge.”
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