2022-05-09
A core lesson here is that it will become increasingly hard to keep talented people if you don't go remote-first. M-F and 9-to-5 is a thing of the past. People want flexibility! Even more critical for non-big tech as Apple has one of the best office environments in the world... https://twitter.com/...
@zoeschiffer
Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of ML, is leaving due to its return to work policy, saying in a note that “more flexibility would have been the best policy”
2021-05-24
I'm a massive fan of Stripe, and we have processed tens of millions with them. Their culture resembles an async-first company! 👏 “It's an incredibly deep-thinking culture. It's a written culture really focused on getting to the right answer.” 💥 https://newsletter.bringthedonuts.com/ ...
Bring the Donuts Newsletter
Q&A with Michael Siliski, a business lead at Stripe, on product culture, how written long-form documents facilitate the flow of information at Stripe, and more
Go deep, move fast, and build multi-decade abstractions — This is the next part of my ongoing series about product culture.
2021-04-28
It's incredibly disheartening to read details about the Basecamp situation. It makes their books seem fictional, especially “It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work”. Also, excellent reporting by Casey 👍 https://twitter.com/...
Platformer
Interviews with Basecamp staff on how a “funny” customer names list sparked an internal reckoning and spurred Basecamp's societal and political discussion ban
Casey's reporting for The Verge brought some of the dirty laundry … Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain : Can We Do Better Than Deplatforming? — This is Galaxy Brain — a newsletter fro...
2020-09-10
I'm very excited about today's launch of the Long-Term Stock Exchange. I could imagine Doist becoming public on an exchange that promotes long-term thinking and mission-driven companies. Congrats @ericries and team 👏 https://blog.ltse.com/...
Protocol
Eric Ries' Silicon Valley-based Long-Term Stock Exchange opens for trading, nine years after “The Lean Startup” author first proposed it
A new stock exchange backed by Silicon Valley heavyweights is opening for business Wednesday. The Long-Term Stock Exchange can now trade …
2019-09-20
Business is booming in the remote-first world. Multi-billion-$ companies are created. This is just the beginning 🚀 — Gitlab raises $268M on a $2.76 billion valuation https://techcrunch.com/... — Automattic raises $300M on a $3 billion valuation https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Automattic raises $300M Series D from Salesforce Ventures at a post-money valuation of $3B
Today Automattic announced it has closed … Sara Fischer / Axios : WordPress.com owner Automattic raises $300 million Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Automattic Raises $300M Se...