Niko Papademetriou

And equally or even more importantly,

bringing innovative solutions to problems.

Every company has problems.

It doesn't matter whether you're a tech company or a restaurant operator or the government, everything's got problems.

And it's easy for people to sit back and say, oh, there's a problem, there's a problem, there's a problem.

The hard part is bringing solutions

not all of those solutions will always be the right perfect best thing right out of the gate but you have to bring solutions and be willing to ask why and be willing to have tough conversations and that's from leaders to entry-level folks that are just out of college and so

That's a big piece of it.

Folks that are willing to ask why, folks that roll their sleeves up and look at challenges and opportunities, but also bring solutions.

And then there has to be a deep desire to help people through what we're building and delivering.

As soon as somebody becomes cynical about something, it's over, they can't be here.

That's not going to be helpful.

Doesn't mean they're bad people, doesn't mean anything.

Other than the fact that as soon as you start looking at the users of your system, all right, the most important people in the room, aka the users of your system, as anything but who you're working for,

and the actual end user of what you're trying to deliver and achieve together is if you look at them as anything less than the north star of who you're looking to please you're not going to be successful so we look for people where those are deep values in what they bring to any organization at any level that they're at and i'll add one more thing we look for people who love and thrive

in being part of a team.

The team can be the whole company.

The team can be a team of two that are going off and working on a new product.

But people who see more value in bringing others along for the ride than just being independent and trying to get recognition or whatever on an individual basis.

Because in business, two plus two needs to equal five.