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Dan Novaes

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

So, you know, departmental OKRs, ensuring that, you know, everyone's really aligned on what they're supposed to work on and then being able to kind of track those OKRs so that people know exactly what their goals are, ensuring that the managers get comped based on that. It's like, you know, everything aligns to that. And it literally took us like four years to do it.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

So, you know, departmental OKRs, ensuring that, you know, everyone's really aligned on what they're supposed to work on and then being able to kind of track those OKRs so that people know exactly what their goals are, ensuring that the managers get comped based on that. It's like, you know, everything aligns to that. And it literally took us like four years to do it.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

So, you know, departmental OKRs, ensuring that, you know, everyone's really aligned on what they're supposed to work on and then being able to kind of track those OKRs so that people know exactly what their goals are, ensuring that the managers get comped based on that. It's like, you know, everything aligns to that. And it literally took us like four years to do it.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

And it's so painful to do, to be honest, if you're not wired in that way. But I think that that's been one of the most impactful, important things, along with these other things that we've learned to create a good remote culture that allows for like, you know, you know, we have like a 90, 80, 90% satisfaction rate. And the average company is like 65% or something like that.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

And it's so painful to do, to be honest, if you're not wired in that way. But I think that that's been one of the most impactful, important things, along with these other things that we've learned to create a good remote culture that allows for like, you know, you know, we have like a 90, 80, 90% satisfaction rate. And the average company is like 65% or something like that.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

And it's so painful to do, to be honest, if you're not wired in that way. But I think that that's been one of the most impactful, important things, along with these other things that we've learned to create a good remote culture that allows for like, you know, you know, we have like a 90, 80, 90% satisfaction rate. And the average company is like 65% or something like that.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

And I think that those are all things that add up to be able to build a great remote company. I mean, I would love to run a

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

And I think that those are all things that add up to be able to build a great remote company. I mean, I would love to run a

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

And I think that those are all things that add up to be able to build a great remote company. I mean, I would love to run a

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

a 1 000 person kind of remote company one day uh that fully operates you know uh autonomously um you know in more of a decentralized fashion and that's what i'm trying to move more and more towards as you know we think about our business well i run a 600 person in-person company so yeah that's definitely it would be uh what what to do for sure

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

a 1 000 person kind of remote company one day uh that fully operates you know uh autonomously um you know in more of a decentralized fashion and that's what i'm trying to move more and more towards as you know we think about our business well i run a 600 person in-person company so yeah that's definitely it would be uh what what to do for sure

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

a 1 000 person kind of remote company one day uh that fully operates you know uh autonomously um you know in more of a decentralized fashion and that's what i'm trying to move more and more towards as you know we think about our business well i run a 600 person in-person company so yeah that's definitely it would be uh what what to do for sure

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

Yeah, yeah. Well, I think even for that, I mean, honestly, I sent it to my co-founder.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

Yeah, yeah. Well, I think even for that, I mean, honestly, I sent it to my co-founder.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

Yeah, yeah. Well, I think even for that, I mean, honestly, I sent it to my co-founder.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

Yeah, yeah. I posted it immediately.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

Yeah, yeah. I posted it immediately.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

Yeah, yeah. I posted it immediately.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

And that was like wise words from the CEO. And it was like a special place for us. I mean, I think that, I mean, their business in particular, if you think about like, and he wrote it in a really good way. It was something along the lines of like, you know, easy tasks, like what used to be easy tasks or like brainless tasks now, what used to be hard tasks. That goes away. Hard is the new easy.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Exploring the Future of Smartphones and Income Generation with Dan Novaes

And that was like wise words from the CEO. And it was like a special place for us. I mean, I think that, I mean, their business in particular, if you think about like, and he wrote it in a really good way. It was something along the lines of like, you know, easy tasks, like what used to be easy tasks or like brainless tasks now, what used to be hard tasks. That goes away. Hard is the new easy.