Brendan Wood

And we ended up making a few terrible hires and then having to deal with the fallout from that. That was a huge learning moment for me. Effectively, the way that we do things now is we don't give people coding tests. Essentially, what we do is we'll meet somebody, interview them, ask them questions, get to know them a bit.

And we ended up making a few terrible hires and then having to deal with the fallout from that. That was a huge learning moment for me. Effectively, the way that we do things now is we don't give people coding tests. Essentially, what we do is we'll meet somebody, interview them, ask them questions, get to know them a bit.

And we ended up making a few terrible hires and then having to deal with the fallout from that. That was a huge learning moment for me. Effectively, the way that we do things now is we don't give people coding tests. Essentially, what we do is we'll meet somebody, interview them, ask them questions, get to know them a bit.

And if it sounds like they're competent at whatever the role is that we want them to do, we hire them on contract.

And if it sounds like they're competent at whatever the role is that we want them to do, we hire them on contract.

And if it sounds like they're competent at whatever the role is that we want them to do, we hire them on contract.

that doesn't work for everybody and it's a huge ask for a perspective employee go take a week off with your other job and work for us in the meantime but we pay people quite well for doing those one week trials with us and we've actually found that most people are like excited about the idea you're pitching somebody on quit your job and join us

that doesn't work for everybody and it's a huge ask for a perspective employee go take a week off with your other job and work for us in the meantime but we pay people quite well for doing those one week trials with us and we've actually found that most people are like excited about the idea you're pitching somebody on quit your job and join us

that doesn't work for everybody and it's a huge ask for a perspective employee go take a week off with your other job and work for us in the meantime but we pay people quite well for doing those one week trials with us and we've actually found that most people are like excited about the idea you're pitching somebody on quit your job and join us

that's a big unknown they don't really know us so we give them the opportunity come work with us for a week you can work on practical problems you'll have a dedicated person on our team who's going to be your handler while you're here and helping you get on board and so on and you can see if you like it and we can see if we like you

that's a big unknown they don't really know us so we give them the opportunity come work with us for a week you can work on practical problems you'll have a dedicated person on our team who's going to be your handler while you're here and helping you get on board and so on and you can see if you like it and we can see if we like you

that's a big unknown they don't really know us so we give them the opportunity come work with us for a week you can work on practical problems you'll have a dedicated person on our team who's going to be your handler while you're here and helping you get on board and so on and you can see if you like it and we can see if we like you

going to keep doing the same thing like we have to keep doing what we're doing we're not planning on adding vastly new features it's really more about adding more integrations as we go improving the integrations we have legitimizing a lot of the integrations with official partnerships with financial institutions that kind of stuff the future is exciting so we have really strong traction on both sides of the market both on the financial institution side and on the demand side with with applications we're approaching a tipping point in the market where

going to keep doing the same thing like we have to keep doing what we're doing we're not planning on adding vastly new features it's really more about adding more integrations as we go improving the integrations we have legitimizing a lot of the integrations with official partnerships with financial institutions that kind of stuff the future is exciting so we have really strong traction on both sides of the market both on the financial institution side and on the demand side with with applications we're approaching a tipping point in the market where

going to keep doing the same thing like we have to keep doing what we're doing we're not planning on adding vastly new features it's really more about adding more integrations as we go improving the integrations we have legitimizing a lot of the integrations with official partnerships with financial institutions that kind of stuff the future is exciting so we have really strong traction on both sides of the market both on the financial institution side and on the demand side with with applications we're approaching a tipping point in the market where

Brokers are actually coming to us and we have large potential customers coming to us and saying, hey, we've heard about you guys and we have an idea for how an integration or how we might be able to use your functionality. And so it feels like the boulder is just tipping over the top of the hill and it's starting to pick up steam on its own. And it's really an amazing feeling.

Brokers are actually coming to us and we have large potential customers coming to us and saying, hey, we've heard about you guys and we have an idea for how an integration or how we might be able to use your functionality. And so it feels like the boulder is just tipping over the top of the hill and it's starting to pick up steam on its own. And it's really an amazing feeling.

Brokers are actually coming to us and we have large potential customers coming to us and saying, hey, we've heard about you guys and we have an idea for how an integration or how we might be able to use your functionality. And so it feels like the boulder is just tipping over the top of the hill and it's starting to pick up steam on its own. And it's really an amazing feeling.

really look up to people who have a vision and who have grit like those are the things that i admire the most people who strongly believe something should exist and they're just going to go make that happen regardless of what the naysayers say and there are a lot of naysayers when you try to do something new especially when you ask people for their support and one of the metrics that i've come across to help identify something truly new is if you pitch something and the answer you get is oh yeah i understand what you're doing but it doesn't look like a market exists for that

really look up to people who have a vision and who have grit like those are the things that i admire the most people who strongly believe something should exist and they're just going to go make that happen regardless of what the naysayers say and there are a lot of naysayers when you try to do something new especially when you ask people for their support and one of the metrics that i've come across to help identify something truly new is if you pitch something and the answer you get is oh yeah i understand what you're doing but it doesn't look like a market exists for that