I re-interview our best performers.
I set time aside to understand why they ramp faster, ship faster, understand customers better.
Recently I got one of the best compliments about our organization. This engineer came from a really good startup. He joined when they were 20 people and left when they were 50.
But he said that at Vercel, despite being over 10x the size, *he can ship faster than at the smaller startup*. Better infrastructure (dogfooding
@vercel) and less bureaucracy, especially around picking up projects and marketing your work.
I think this should be the norm moving forward. Companies can only grow headcount proportional to provable velocity increase. Big companies that move slow are not good for the world.