Pros
- Team: we've hired a VERY good group of people who, so far, exist at the very interesting cross-section of being brilliant, driven, and ambitious while also being kind and compassionate. - Product: It's young, but we absolutely have product-market-fit. This thing is going to be a juggernaut in 5-10 years - Leadership: Our senior leaders (including our co-founders) are seasoned, complement each other well, and have a good balance of ambition and caution. We are investing heavily in things that matter, and ignoring the frivolity that occasionally besets companies in our high-growth well-funded position. - Growth: I believe I have opportunities to grow with this company
Kontras
- Far more problems than solutions and far more questions than answers. This means there are a LOT of things we could get wrong. This isn't an Unsupervised problem, this is a high-growth SaaS problem. Joining this company presents risks. - Noah (CEO) tends to put people in a box or misunderstand their capability. You've got to win him over the first time. To an extent, I think he may be aware of this tendency, but I'm not sure it's managed well enough. No doubt he's brilliant and it's unusual for him to be wrong, but good luck changing his mind. - I think we under-invest in Culture. I doubt many here could clearly articulate our values and how they should influence day-to-day work and decision making. Covid has left a void that is yet to be filled. This is especially true regarding any "fun" factor. This year has mostly just been a grind. Everything from the water-cooler talk to team offsites to annual company events has been left by the wayside and there hasn't been any intentionality around reincarnating that for the Covid world. In general, we do a poor job of recognizing people's work in any meaningful way.