Cal.com operates as an open startup with publicly accessible employee salaries
Bailey Pumfleet · 18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly · Jun 23, 2022 · at 15:10
Bailey Pumfleet, co-founder of open-source scheduling platform Cal.com, discusses the company's radical transparency policies with Nathan Latka.
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“Yes, we are an entirely open startup. So literally like my salary is, is publicly available.”
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