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Re: Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?

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Post by jstayton » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 2:52 PM UTC

jstayton wrote: post #5

They call it "Open Allocation". "Holacracy" is similar as well. A few other companies doing it... * Zappos — http://qz.com/161210/zappos-is-going-holacratic-no-job-title... * Treehouse — http://ryancarson.com/post/61562761297/no-managers-why-we-re... * WL Gore & Associates (parts of the company) — http://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/nov/02/gore-tex-tex...

We've been doing Open Allocation at Monk Development (http://www.monkdevelopment.com) for about a year now, but haven't yet written anything about our experiences.

Re: Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?

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Post by flavor8 » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 2:55 PM UTC

lunae wrote: post #3

Attlasian

Maybe that explains why there are 5 year old critical bugs in their products...

Re: Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?

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Post by lazerscience » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 2:55 PM UTC

knd775 wrote: post #9

JikkuJose wrote: post #6

Have you checked: www.assembly.com & www.kickstarter.com

I don't think that is what was meant by OP. I think they were asking about the atmosphere/organization inside of the company, rather than companies that allow people to collaborate.

Yes I think this is what the question is about. Some people might call it "Holocracy" or something like that...

Re: Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?

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Post by lazerscience » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 2:56 PM UTC

lunae wrote: post #3

Attlasian

Maybe you can elaborate why you are mentioning them here?

Re: Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?

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Post by bdimcheff » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 2:57 PM UTC

We do this at Olark to a large extent, but I don't think anybody has written about it in any detail yet. We have a peer-driven project proposal process that allows anybody to propose a project, and then "vote with your feet" to get it done. It's still pretty new, but I'd guess we'll write about it once we have a little more experience with it.

Re: Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?

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Post by ceejayoz » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 3:01 PM UTC

https://www.balancedpayments.com/open

Re: Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?

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Post by satyanash » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 3:08 PM UTC

Zoho Corp. is also an interesting company. Their CRM is often considered a better/cheaper alternative to SalesForce.

Their Zoho University concept is also an interesting attempt to solve India's problem of creating quality engineers (vs quantity).

Re: Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?

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Post by fractalsea » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 3:14 PM UTC

marcusf wrote: post #4

I'm subjective, but I think Spotify uses slightly innovative ways of organising. See: * https://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-cult... * https://labs.spotify.com/2014/09/20/spotify-engineering-cult... Happy to answer questions.

I recently spoke to a recruiter at Skyscanner, and he mentioned that they have also adopted a similar model to Spotify. He called the model "Squads and tribes".

Re: Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?

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Post by bane » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 3:16 PM UTC

Gore is a widely known company that does. However, a review of their glassdoor profile shows it is not as great on the inside as the marketing makes it out to be.

Here's my previous comments on it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8270601

Re: Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?

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Post by ntoll » Wed, Nov 26, 2014, 3:19 PM UTC

In a similar vein, Fry-IT (http://www.fry-it.com/) are a small web-development company based in London that organise themselves around the outlook of "industrial democracy" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_democracy) proposed by Ricardo Semler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler).

They're also great supporters of the London Python scene (also another good indicator of a good company to work with).

(Note: I used to do sub-contract work with them. The first thing that happens when you work with them is you get sent a copy of one of Semler's books on the subject.)