Pluspunten
- Fully remote work - Historically well funded - Takes risks: each co-founder has their own personal team to fulfill their agendas which are largely focused on experimentation with the exception of the COO team, whose job is to make the COO seem engaged)
Minpunten
- Lack of strategy: no vision or guidance provided on where the company is headed and how to get there, specifically how all the different businesses fit together, and to mitigate regulatory and compliance risks - Lack of accountability or ownership: it seems like nobody wants to make decisions because they don't want to be responsible if something goes wrong, which creates excessive swirl across critical initiatives - Ineffective management: leadership seems more focused on maintaining their scope and influence in the organization than trying to effectively scale and manage the business (e.g., Product, Operations), numerous occasions of leaders "dropping bombs" into projects or organizations that are well intentioned but negatively impact the initiative due to their lack of engagement and understanding, no emphasis on talent development, and leaders are overly sensitive to feedback (e.g., Product, Tech) - Toxic culture: the company has become divided into 2 different groups, one group has been there since early stage and now feel entitled to their roles focused on maintaining scope without doing what's required to drive the business forward, the other group are relatively newer joiners who are eager to take the business to the next level but constantly blocked by the first group and leadership not enabling them with the autonomy to operate effectively - Not employee friendly: need to provision own laptop for work, expensive health care programs, required business travel not well accommodated