[Poleris]

Hi Justin,

I noticed that you've scaled the business quite quickly since inception a year ago, growing to around 100 employees.

I see a lot of advice saying to keep growth to only ~2x FTEs per year to preserve culture. How do you reconcile that with your hyper-scale financing and hiring trajectory?

Thanks, really appreciate your thoughts.

[justin]

It is definitely a risk. I think the first six months of the company we grew headcount probably too aggressively, and then the second six months of the company we did a lot of things to go back and fix some of the resulting cultural tensions (things like create company values collaboratively, figure out job roles better, etc). I'm pleased to say that we have made amazing progress there though (mostly due to the team, not me!).

Unlikely we grow beyond 2x headcount in the upcoming year.