Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses. It is because when you share too much of this information with staff you develop an “options culture” the I find unhealthy. Would now be a good time to buy a house? I’d need a letter from you to help with my loan.” ” Yes.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 29, 2019

As the founder of Poe Group Advisors , a company that has been facilitating the sale and transfer of accounting firms since 2003, Brannon is no stranger to connecting people and growing an organization. The combination of networking and educational opportunities that a peer group provides ensures members have access to top-level development.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. McGee Award and was the 2003 Journal Record Woman of the Year. Women business leaders have created mentorship networks to help support a culture of innovation and risk-taking.

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Hunter Walk

JANUARY 27, 2023

Google was about 1,000 people when I started in 2003, which means last week’s layoffs were more than an order of magnitude larger than the entire company I’d originally joined. High performers and culture carriers for years — terminated via email and without the opportunity to celebrate their time with their teams.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2014

Google had grown from $220k in revenue in 19aw99, to $19M in 2000, to $86M in 2001, to $347M in 2002, to $961M in 2003, and would record $3.2B Digging past the business revealed a wonderful culture. But that feeling was more than just a product of the rocket ship growth of the ads business. in 2004, the year of their IPO.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. While that happens sometimes, it was a challenge for Google because it frequently had trouble adapting from an engineering driven culture.

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