Hey Dare,
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The trick isn’t tooling – it’s outstanding managers. Outstanding managers know how to measure productivity holistically, and software doesn’t. In my experience, people management is way harder on a remote team. Being an individual contributor is easy, but management is very difficult. We’ve found that a full-time manager can partner with 6-8 people, but not more than that. My wild guess is that you have too many individual contributors and not enough people focused on your people.
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No. Equity is one of many many variables. To pull from another comment:
What I’ve tried to do is build a company people are proud to be part of, and a culture within which they feel like they are doing their best work. Retention is the byproduct if you get those things right.
- 4-year vesting period, 1-year cliff. Evergreen grants should be given starting at 2 years, so there’s always something vesting even after the first 4 years.