
grounded, empathy, talented and fun
Being in the first floor of building a generational company,
People, values and leadership. Culture promotes handling conflict head on and avoid any negative consequences later on.
Founder led company, one of them is still CTO and drives product vision. CEO took the company to a successful IPO and going strong.
They could do much better with equity to employees. Pay has always been at par/below the industry standards. When you compete for the talent with industry top players, makes sense to pay them similarly.