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Learnings from a Culture-First Start-up
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Summary
Sunil Sadasivan talks about some of Buffer’s culture experiments to illustrate how cultivating and iterating on a team's culture can improve happiness, productivity, employee retention, and overall growth. Being a globally distributed team and defaulting to transparency are just two of the many things Buffer culture is known for.
Bio
Sunil Sadasivan is CTO at Buffer. He started as the second engineer (employee #5) in 2012 and helped grow Buffer to now 93 people and 10 million Annual Recurring Revenue. Throughout the journey, Sadasivan has architected the back-end infrastructure, led engineering hiring, pioneered Buffer's diversity initiatives, and helped shape Buffer's culture values.
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Aug 14, 2016