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Introductions

  • jerry - enterprise developer
  • danish - enterprise sales

Overview

  • github overview
    • started as a side project to share and host code
      • grown much bigger. now the goal is to be a suite of collaboration tools. work better together
  • what version control is?
    • it’s like wikipedia for code
    • 5th birthday
    • 158 employees, no churn (why? - how do you solve the people problem?)
      • when it comes down to it, companies are made of people. great people, great execution. bad people, dead company
      • trust
      • flexibility
      • challenges

Culture

Optimizing for Happiness

  • remote working
    • 60.3% currently remote
    • hubot demo (hubot labs)
      • we run the entire company from chat (fun, work, reporting)
      • /img me
      • /how many days until 4mm users
      • /remote me
      • /where is
      • /what’s playing
      • /ci build enterprise-web/master
      • /deploy
      • /graph me
      • /halp stats
      • /grocery me (make people feel at home)
  • open and transparent culture
    • example github/legal repo, create issues to ask hoolio questions
  • hack house (serendiptious interactions)
  • giants (team building, non work talk)
  • encouraging remote people to come into the office
  • conferences
  • summits
    • company wide twice a year: unified company vision, matching up faces w/ nicknames, serendiptious interactions (hack day, people doing talks about themselves or projects they want to work on)
    • mini-summits for individual teams to organize

Management

  • show how, don’t tell
  • beer:30 keeps us aligned on company vision and what’s happening in the company
  • how do ideas become product?
    • pitch your idea in internal twitter called Team
    • get feedback
    • ideas die if you can't get people excited to build it with you.
    • refine them and try again

Hiring

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