Startup Dream Team is back! This edition will feature talks by 3 awesome startups: #SCALING: Damien Morin, CEO @Save will explain how to establish a culture mindset when you're basically hiring a new employee every day. He knows this topic pretty well: his team grew from 8 to 600 in less than a year. #REMOTE: Rodolphe Dutel, BizDev @Buffer, will talk about building your culture when employees work remotely. Indeed, Buffer is known for hiring remote team members. Rodolphe will present tools that get employees work closer together. #INTERNATIONAL: Sylvain Utard, VP of Engineering & 1st employee @Algolia, will talk about how to recruit people & build a culture when you're expanding abroad. From Paris to San Francisco, Algolia has been growing their team in these 2 cities and will share their tips on how to do it right.

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4. TONIGHT
DAMIEN MORIN
CEO @SAVE
@DAMIENSMS
RODOLPHE DUTEL
BIZDEV @BUFFER
@RDUTEL
SYLVAIN UTARD
VP OF ENGINEERING @ALGOLIA
@SYLVAINUTARD

20. Rodolphe Dutel
@rdutel

21. @rdutel
At Google, 5 years ago

22. @rdutel
At Google, 5 years ago

23. @rdutel
After Google, 3 years ago

24. @rdutel
At Buffer, 2 years ago: 15 people

25. @rdutelPic. Buffer
At Buffer, today - 65 people

26. @rdutel
Life on the road

27. Rodolphe Dutel - @rdutel
@rdutel
Working on the road

28. Remote worker, or Nomad?
@rdutelPic. Buffer

29. Rodolphe Dutel - @rdutel
No Office Required

30. Cultivating our Culture, Remotely.
@rdutel

31. Culture & Values (Version 0.6)
@rdutelPic. Buffer

32. @rdutel
Setting expectations

33. Culture through Transparency
@rdutelPic. Buffer

34. Culture through Transparency
@rdutelPic. Buffer

35. Rodolphe Dutel - @rdutel
@rdutel
Culture through Transparency

36. Culture through Communication & Empathy
rodolphe@dutel.fr@rdutelPic. Buffer

37. Meeting in Person every 6 months
@rdutelPic. Buffer

38. @rdutel
Adapting our Tools

39. Expanding Remotely - Hiring Remote Workers
@rdutel

40. @rdutel
Finding Candidates

41. @rdutel
Finding Candidates
buffer.com/salary

42. Rodolphe Dutel - @rdutel
Hiring Remotely

43. Rodolphe Dutel - @rdutel
Hiring Remotely

44. Rodolphe Dutel - @rdutel
Hiring Remotely

45. Rodolphe Dutel - @rdutel
Hiring Remotely

46. Rodolphe Dutel - @rdutel
Hiring Remotely

47. Rodolphe Dutel - @rdutel
Hiring Remotely

48. @rdutel
Interviewing Remotely
Pic. Baremetrics blog

50. @rdutel
6-week Bootcamp

51. @rdutel
Meeting face to face

53. Going Forward
@rdutel

54. @rdutel

55. @rdutel
January 2016 in Hawaii

56. @rdutel
10,000+ people read Remotive.io

57. @rdutel
Q&A @rdutel

58. APPENDIX
All following slides = unlikely to be used
@rdutel

59. Rodolphe Dutel - @rdutel
@rdutel

60. @rdutel

61. @rdutel
Life on the road - 101
Pic. Unsplash

62. @rdutel

63. Culture through Empathy
@rdutelPic. Unsplash

64. @rdutel
Long-term Disconnecting
Pic. Thur

65. @rdutelPic. Unsure
Long-term Disconnecting

66. @rdutel
Long-term Disconnecting
Pic. Thur

67. @rdutel
6-week Bootcamp

68. @rdutel

69. EXPANDING OUR TEAM & CULTURE ABROAD
Build Unique Search Experiences
Sylvain Utard
VP of Engineering & 1st employee
sylvain@algolia.com
@sylvainutard
Startup Dream Team - Nov 2015

70. @algolia
A hosted search API
We enable developers to deliver outstanding search experiences.

72. @algolia
Algolia Today
14regions 28data centers
1100+customers in 100+ countries
30B+ Write operationsper month
8B+ User-generated queriesper month

73. Back in 2012
Bootstrapped in Paris
• 2 co-founders
• Engineering backgrounds
• Building a mobile SDK
• Offline search engine
• Aiming to build a “culture-first” company
• “Free Your Employees”

74. From SDK to SAAS
From local-ish to global-ish
• Pivoted to a SAAS company
• Easier to target global customers
• Beta, September 2013, team of 4

75. US relocation
First attempt
• Following YC W 14 (April 2014)
• US-based HQ
• Not ready to split the team
• Team of 6
• Still too focus on the product
• Especially with 9h of timezone offset

76. Non-FR employees
Our first non-french hire
• September 2014, team of 7
• Opportunistic (received an email)
• One of our best move ever :)
• English only in our Paris Office

77. Keep working
US company in Paris
• May 2015, team of 15
• 2nd non-french hire
• New (bigger) office
• Hard to keep using English
• Especially in an open-space
• A few warnings/reminders!!!

78. US relocation
Second attempt :)
• July 2015, team of 18
• After series A
• Team was ready :)
• Our CEO moved there
• + 1 (french) CFO
• + 1 (french) marketing
• Hard to hire non-french people :/

79. Hiring
Scaling the US team
• Smaller hiring network
• Still perceived as a “french company”
• September 2015, our first US employee
• People/operations
• October 2015, more US employees
• + 1 recruiter
• + 1 marketing

80. Remote
We partially came back
• From full to less-remote :)
• Culture of “ownership” hard to learn
• Tech product hard to master
• Better to start with 6-12 months in
the office

81. Scaling the team
From 22 to 34 - Before 1st day
• Culture = Big part of the hiring process
• 1 skype screening
• 1-3 skype interviews
• 1 on-site day
• Meet with every employees
• 1 NOGO = NOGO

82. Scaling the team
From 22 to 34 - After 1st day
• New hires’ first week
• Meeting with every employees
• Sales calls shadowing
• Onboarding project
• Shared with the team after 2-3 weeks

83. Scaling the culture
Between SF and Paris
• New US hires
• At least 3 weeks in our Paris Office
• Algolia spirit/culture immersion

84. @algolia
Questions?

85. SEE YOU SOON!
LOVE.
THEFAMILY.CO
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