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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

sylvain@algolia.com @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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