How Our Two-Office Startup Turned a 9-Hour Time Difference into a Powerful Advantage

By Medium - 2019-08-21

Description

When I joined MadKudu ten months ago, I was afraid that more than half of my company (including our three co-founders) would be in another…

Summary

  • When I joined MadKudu ten months ago, I was afraid that more than half of my company (including our three co-founders) would be on another continent separated by an ocean, nine hours’ time difference, and with an American culture I wasn’t used to.
  • Each Mad Weekly meeting ends with a Q&A, and we have presentations from each of the teams.
  • For two-office startups with no founders at the second site (e.g.
  • our Paris office), it’s crucial to have a high degree of trust between executive and local management.
  • As a Head of Talent, I can say our talent acquisition is the best I’ve seen for a 20 person company.

 

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  1. Management (0.43)
  2. UX (0.1)
  3. Machine_Learning (0.07)

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