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GitHub, Twitter, DropBox, MailChimp, 37Signals
Creativity is Important How different web teams work
GitHub ideologyHours are bullshit; worry about good work
Working 9-5 doesn’t work!
Working long hours isn’t a badge of honor!
Best work from employees when they are happy, fresh & creative
Minimize distractions
Be asynchronous
More ideology...
Alcohol
Creativity means self-direction
Hacks on side projects
Hubot - Github bot
http://hubot.github.com/
unlock the door to the office
deploy GitHub
say an arbitrary strings over the office speakers
find an apartment in the area to rent
and more...
GitHub Stat
Launched - April, 2008
Around 1.6M people and 2.7M repositories
2 first years without office
Employees - 77
Revenue over 1M+ and no VC
GitHub CEO
Chris Wanstrath - GitHub co-founder and CEO
@defunkt
Dropbox “cookies”
Free breakfasts, lunches and dinners daily
Whiskey friday :)
Unlimited Dropbox storage
18 payed vacation days
Starcraft dedicated game rooms, DDR etc.
Dropbox Stat
Over 50M users
Founded in 2007 (Y Combinator Start up)
Written in - Python
Employees - 78
Total VC - 257M; 96% users pay nothing
Valuation around 4B and Revenue in 2011 240M
Dropbox CEO
Drew Houston
@drewhouston
Twitter “cookies”
ZipCar discount
Laundry and cleaning services
Catered breakfast and lunch daily
Weekly in-office yoga and pilates classes
...
Twitter ideology
Friday evening - talk with executives over drinks
Brainstorm everywhere
Breakfast & lunch are free!
Hard work, long hours
Too many good people. Makes you look bad :)
Twitter StatEmployees 900+
Revenue 140M+ annual
Founded 2006
140M+ active users, 340M+ tweets & 1.6B searches daily
Acquisitions - 45,2M
Funding - 1,16B
Twitter Acquisitions
Hotspots.io - 2012
Posterous (2012)
Dasient
Summify
TweetDeck (2011) - 40M
Twitter CEO
Jack Dorsey
@jack
Works 16 hrs daily
CEO of Square as well
Mailchimp fun
Color book - “Love what you do”
Pranks on the web site
Easter eggs ritual -> not really this
Embedded Asteroid game typing “boredom” into search bar
Maichimp rules
1. Avoid rules ;) Avoid order. Create a little bit chaos
2. Give team permission to try, to fail, to make something crazy
3. Hire weird people. Not someone with tattoo in the ass :), but from different area
4. Meetings outside meeting rooms
Mailchimp stat
Employees 35
Founded 2001
825,000 subscribers & sending 1.75B emails/m
Freemium gives +160% payed customers
20% of users has email lists > 10K subscribers
Mailchimp CEO
Ben Chestnut
@benchestnut
37Signals culture
Standing for something isn’t about writing it down. It’s about believing it and living it.
No treating employees like children, no meetings
4 day week, can work remotely
Pay for: flight lessons, cooking lessons etc.
CC from 37Signals for books, go to conference
37Signals “tech”
Basecamp Mobile - CoffeeScript + Cinco: Backbone, Zepto, Eco, Stitch
Web on Ruby; they built RoR
Do not support IE6, its rule :)
Journal screen - shows everyones status
37Signals stat
3M customers
16 employees
Founded in 1999
Basecamp, Campfire, Highrise, Ta-Da, Softfolio
Books: Defensive Design, Getting Real, Rework
37Signals CEO
Jason Fried
@jasonfried