Not to be too negative as I think all of these things are theoretically good, but they are all just copying things Google does, and Google is a much better exam

Not to be too negative as I think all of these things are theoretically good, but they are all just copying things Google does, and Google is a much better example of a successful company than a 20 person startup. FYI I'm sure many companies were all doing these things before Google, they are just an easy example. 1) Google moderator was invented because it was used internally for Google's TGIF (which is essentially a giant version of the "contrarian office hours") 2) Google obviously has tons of tech talks of many different topics that are not only available to people in the company but are often posted to youtube for everybody 3) 1:1s are great (this isn't just common to Google but practically any well-managed company), but if this company reaches 100 employees then there is no way the CEO will be able to have effective meetings with everybody, and it probably wouldn't be a good use of time either. At that time they will need to come up with a sane management structure (very hard) that hasn't been required yet. Also my favorite part is: “We tell our employees to check their egos at the door, so as a company we need to do the same thing,” Coming from the CEO, in an article talking about almost exclusively about how great he is, which includes 2 pictures of himself and 0 pictures of anybody else on his team.