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What do you do in finance?
I develop internal applications in the investment banking sector.
Ah, by in finance I meant working directly in finance. I work as a financial analyst.
We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
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Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#132Awesome work guys! I'm curious how you guys decided on a 4-day week? Was it a group decision or founder laying down the new way of getting stuff done?
I'm the other co-founder of Treehouse. It's something that Ryan enacted back in the Carsonified days, but it's worked amazingly well and is just something we've always done.
Company folklore has it that Gill, Ryan's wife, basically commented that it seemed like the company was running them rather than them running the company back then, so their solution was to switch to working 4 days per week.
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#133"We work a 4-day week a̶n̶d̶ because we just raised $4.75m." I'd love to work a 0-day week on Other People's Money. Not sure I'd write an insufferably smug post bragging about it if I did. [edit] Just noticed that this is a two-year old blog post and the first comment on it refers to "smug HN trolling" so more fool me.
Ryan has been posting here about his 4-day work week for a while, and I'm guessing it started before raising the $4.75m. That would contradict your assessment, though I hope someone can fact check the timing for me.
Yep. We've been working the 4-day work week since well before we raised money.
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
I develop internal applications in the investment banking sector.
Ah, by in finance I meant working directly in finance. I work as a financial analyst.
Even my buddies who work directly as analysts pack their shit up at a certain time. I guess it's just that we have great management that cares for us. It's our banks policy to very strictly enforce work life balance. You get scolded if you do too much over time, regardless if things aren't getting done.
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#135Serious question: why does Treehouse need 45 employees? What's the division of labor? Are most of them required for content creation, or engineering, or what? I've been thinking a lot about company size lately, and was always impressed that not long before acquisition time Instagram had a team of just six (which quickly expanded to twelve prior to acquisition). Is such a small team size really only achievable by user…
You can see our full team, and their responsibilities here ( http://teamtreehouse.com/about ) The content team (teachers, video, audio, motion design) is a sizable portion of the company. They focus on writing, producing, and supporting the learning content and video. The app team (devs + designers) focus on things like the the web app, the learning tools like our code challenges, and quite a bit of other stuff. We h…
Can confirm.
Source: I'm Nick.
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#136Damn, I can barely click around the web without seeing a picture of that guy's skinny mug plastered on something. I'm beginning to think the business is marketing, not technology.
Bingo