startup dream team with save, buffer and algolia
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DAMIEN MORIN CEO @SAVE @DAMIENSMS
RODOLPHE DUTEL BIZDEV @BUFFER
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SYLVAIN UTARD VP OF ENGINEERING @ALGOLIA
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Rodolphe Dutel @rdutel
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At Google, 5 years ago
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At Google, 5 years ago
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After Google, 3 years ago
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At Buffer, 2 years ago: 15 people
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At Buffer, today - 65 people
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Life on the road
Rodolphe Dutel - @rdutel
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Working on the road
Remote worker, or Nomad?
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Rodolphe Dutel - @rdutel
No Office Required
Cultivating our Culture, Remotely.
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Culture & Values (Version 0.6)
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Setting expectations
Culture through Transparency
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Culture through Transparency
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Rodolphe Dutel - @rdutel
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Culture through Transparency
Culture through Communication & Empathy
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Meeting in Person every 6 months
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Adapting our Tools
Expanding Remotely - Hiring Remote Workers
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Finding Candidates
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Finding Candidates buffer.com/salary
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Hiring Remotely
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Hiring Remotely
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Hiring Remotely
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Hiring Remotely
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Hiring Remotely
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Hiring Remotely
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Interviewing Remotely
Pic. Baremetrics blog
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6-week Bootcamp
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Meeting face to face
Going Forward
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January 2016 in Hawaii
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10,000+ people read Remotive.io
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Q&A @rdutel
APPENDIX All following slides = unlikely to be used
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Rodolphe Dutel - @rdutel
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Life on the road - 101
Pic. Unsplash
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Culture through Empathy
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Long-term Disconnecting
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Long-term Disconnecting
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Long-term Disconnecting
Pic. Thur
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6-week Bootcamp
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EXPANDING OUR TEAM & CULTURE ABROAD
Build Unique Search Experiences
Sylvain Utard VP of Engineering & 1st employee
[email protected] @sylvainutard
Startup Dream Team - Nov 2015
@algolia
A hosted search APIWe enable developers to deliver outstanding search experiences.
@algolia
Algolia Today
14 regions 28 data centers
1100+ customers in 100+ countries
30B+ Write operations per month
8B+ User-generated queries per month
Back in 2012 Bootstrapped in Paris
• 2 co-founders • Engineering backgrounds • Building a mobile SDK
• Offline search engine • Aiming to build a “culture-first” company
• “Free Your Employees”
From SDK to SAAS From local-ish to global-ish
• Pivoted to a SAAS company • Easier to target global customers • Beta, September 2013, team of 4
US relocation First attempt
• Following YC W 14 (April 2014) • US-based HQ • Not ready to split the team
• Team of 6 • Still too focus on the product • Especially with 9h of timezone offset
Non-FR employees Our first non-french hire
• September 2014, team of 7 • Opportunistic (received an email) • One of our best move ever :)
• English only in our Paris Office
Keep working US company in Paris
• May 2015, team of 15 • 2nd non-french hire • New (bigger) office
• Hard to keep using English • Especially in an open-space • A few warnings/reminders!!!
US relocation Second attempt :)
• July 2015, team of 18 • After series A • Team was ready :)
• Our CEO moved there • + 1 (french) CFO • + 1 (french) marketing
• Hard to hire non-french people :/
Hiring Scaling the US team
• Smaller hiring network • Still perceived as a “french company”
• September 2015, our first US employee • People/operations
• October 2015, more US employees • + 1 recruiter • + 1 marketing
Remote We partially came back
• From full to less-remote :) • Culture of “ownership” hard to learn • Tech product hard to master • Better to start with 6-12 months in
the office
Scaling the team From 22 to 34 - Before 1st day
• Culture = Big part of the hiring process • 1 skype screening • 1-3 skype interviews • 1 on-site day
• Meet with every employees • 1 NOGO = NOGO
Scaling the team From 22 to 34 - After 1st day
• New hires’ first week • Meeting with every employees • Sales calls shadowing • Onboarding project
• Shared with the team after 2-3 weeks
Scaling the culture Between SF and Paris
• New US hires • At least 3 weeks in our Paris Office • Algolia spirit/culture immersion
@algolia
Questions?
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