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At Buffer we've started to move in this direction. I can highly recommend watching this video if you're interested in self-management and the idea of a new management paradigm: htt…

Oh, I think most if it is :) Lots of right time right place.

That's right, good eye Egbert and thanks for chiming in with the details! Interestingly, Leo and I have been doing this for almost 4 years, whereas most of the team is much earlier…

Thank you Peter! Let me know if I can ever help you with anything :-)

Indeed, we haven't raised a large single round from an institution, though we did have 3 firms put in $50k each as part of that $450k round. The board is just myself and Leo.

That's around the right ballpark. If you want to do the actual calculation, feel free to take a look at our spreadsheet of salaries here: https://docs.google.com/a/bufferapp.com/sp…

Thanks for the help vardy! We're currently 22 full-time and will be 24-25 in a few weeks.

Hi Brandon! Out of our total March revenue of $246,000 [1], 79% came from our $10/mo Awesome Plan and the other 21% came from Buffer for Business [2]. Let me know if you have any o…

Wow, thanks so much for the kind words. Let me know if I can ever help with anything, and good luck with the self-employed business! :-)

Great questions Ryan! Happiness Heroes are the people who help customers with queries via Email, Twitter and Live Chat. Weekend Warriors are people in the team who help with those …

We've been transparent about how many applications we get, which is quite a lot from what I've heard other founders say when I've mentioned the numbers: http://open.bufferapp.com/h…

Let me know if you have any questions about that or anything else :-)

We're fully distributed, that includes all engineers too :-) Colin is based in Cambridge. Firmly rooted in Warwickshire is no problem! I went to Warwick University by the way :-)

Hey Vishal, that's amazing to hear! Data scientist is a role we've been pondering, if you are up for it, we'd still love to hear from you :-)

Hey everyone, hope your April is off to a killer start! Like in last month's Who is hiring I wanted to share all our numbers for complete transparency. March just came to a close a…

Wow, thanks so much. I still have a huge amount to learn :-) Luckily there are a lot of great books out there and mentors around who I can learn from in order to try and become the…

Wow, so happy to hear that! Excited to check out your email :-)

Hey Adit, thanks so much for the kind words, it's comments like this that make me excited to get out of bed every day and continue building the company and reflecting on the cultur…

We've pondered this a lot and have decided this Summer will be a little early for us to be set up for internship positions. I'm hoping we might do it next Summer!

Yes, absolutely! I am a Brit living in San Francisco and my co-founder is Austrian. We know this process well having been through it personally for both of us and several others in…

Hi Michael, we're certainly in need of help in terms of DevOps and Systems Engineering challenges too. Our architecture has a lot of room for improvement and we'd benefit a lot fro…

Hi! right now since it's still the early set of people for the team and we're establishing the culture, we're looking primarily for people who will be fully on board full-time. in …

wow, thanks so much! let me know if I can ever help you with anything :-)

Buffer ( http://bufferapp.com ) Hey everyone, hope your weekend is off to a killer start! February just came to a close and Buffer stands at 1.4M total users served by a small 16 p…