An oldie but goodie on how to quickly grow your team while keeping the right culture.
Some tidbits from the article:
“First, to scale a startup, you should always remind yourself why people work at startups in the first place:” - they like to move fast - they want to make impactful decisions - they want to DO things and BUILD things (not sit in meetings awash in PowerPoint) - they want to be able to take risks
“You have to actively develop a culture of speed and informed risk-taking and put real mechanisms in place to continually reinforce that culture, especially when you’re growing quickly.”
“To scale as you grow, you have to put processes and structure in place that encourage everyone in your company to take more risks (not fewer), keep the right people informed of the risks you are taking, and protect individuals from silly mistakes that would tempt your company to institute unnecessary embedded processes.”
“Everyone in the company uses IRC, not just engineers. Everyone, all the time, from the CEO on down.”
“Deploy code early and continuously”
“Build a culture that loves engineers”