Full transparency with no private messages

I mean, it's similar to investors. Like, for example, know, founders fund says they will never ever vote against the founder on the board. Right. So, you you have lots of investors on when they take board seats, they fire founders and then that practically never ever works out. Right. In the same way, you know, when founders fund first said, we're not going to fire founders. Everybody was like, wow, this is crazy. You know, you need to have like accountability and to have all this. But actually it has the opposite effect. It just means that, you know, people are going to work harder. They're going to be more motivated, they're not going to be scared, they're going be willing to take risks. And take it more importantly, take accountability for mistakes. If something goes wrong, they're not afraid of say, Oh, actually, I a mistake. Because if you want to improve, actually need to take accountability for those mistakes. And as a team, I think that's very important for us, you know, if someone gets something wrong, that's fine, as long as they, they improve and we torture each other into greatness.

Actually, that is a very, very smart way of approaching it because you rather invest all your time and energy to make sure you let the right people in and be part of the team. It's like, actually, it's also very rare that in the army that you get fired. Like, you got into the various roles, unless you do ethical wrongs, if I am not right. Yeah.

Yeah, there's two instances where I do say I will fire. And one of them is if someone has lied or like misled us. And the second one is if someone plays politics, we have a strict no politics culture in the company. And by that I mean, you know, things like favoritism, things like socializing ideas before a decision is

Yes.

Another thing that's big about our company is that we have 100 % transparency. That means

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No one has private conversations. You can see anyone's conversations. ⁓ There's no Slack DMs. Everything goes through our public channels. You can request an email. You can request anything. And that's very important. ⁓ So there's nothing, know, anyone can know anything about the company at any point, whether it's about me, whether it's how much I earn, whether that's what I do with other customers or how different team members interact with each other. All of that is visible. And that's another great thing the company.

I think by doing so, you already eliminate a couple of root causes to dysfunctional teams, right? Like sometimes even not intentionally those things happen that you don't mean in that way. then how do you say this? You kind of set mechanisms internally in the company that only empowers and enables people forward. And then you trust their own judgment so that this information is available. There is nothing. There is nothing hidden, like if you want to know something, down to my salary and your peers salary, in this way everyone also, this trust feeling goes beyond trust, I guess, and they feel committed in a very, how I say, engaged way.