130 People – No Bosses: Too Good To Be True?
summary
Vertica runs as 130 people, no bosses organized into 16 self-contained customer teams plus ~15 support staff and cross‑organizational groups; decisions happen close to impact using two to three meaningful affected stakeholders (examples: blinds and a Bluetooth kit bought in a week, a Lego library created by staff, checkout flow redesigned and approved by customer). Career coaching covers 30 people as 30 career coaches; salaries use a peer‑assessment algorithm (each person rates 4–15 colleagues, individual influence ≈1/35). Result: faster, transparent decisions with tradeoffs on scale, culture and external partners.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 7:41The way we think and talk about work
- 25:22Organisational development Groups
- 28:43Career coaching
- 34:38Salary validation process
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