Jason Andrew
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So we couldn't code.
So we were mostly remote.
We had some engineers in the office.
So when they were up late at night, because in the early days, we were like burning the candle at both ends.
I could buy pizza and he could play songs.
And we just walk around the office and like try and encourage the guys like, Hey, keep going, man.
We're going to get through this, you know?
And, um, but what we started doing then on our all hands was playing music, uh, just as a way, you know, to kind of encourage people and Garrett like music.
And that was the thing.
When we sold the company, we had 140 employees and I swear probably 80 were really, really good musicians of some variety or another.
And all through the life cycle of the company, we started doing all hands where an employee would say, hey, I'm going to do a song, an original or a cover or something like that.
We had everything from opera to rock songs to you name it.
But then we started actually in serenading customers.
So we had like a huge executive team come from Ireland and they came to our office.
They'd visit a bunch of companies in Silicon Valley.
And so we like serenaded these guys and they came to our office and they were blown away.
They're like, we've never had anybody in a sales meeting serenade us with a song.
And we're friends with them to this day.
And we've gotten, then, then we started doing that to go on site.
We'd be on site with customers.