What Silicon Valley tells us about building great teams When many people think of Silicon Valley, they think of current tech giants like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple. But its story actually started four decades earlier with far more basic tech — the semiconductor. (This is how the area got its name, since silicon was one of the most widely…
Our Engineering Demos stemmed from a simple question — “How can we share knowledge among our engineers better?” All of our engineers were working on different, complex products, but they usually had knowledge that could help each other out. For example, we didn’t need to build completely different front-end and backend developer workflows, or unique infrastructure for Collect (our mobile…
We are always thinking deeply about the “dent” Atlan could leave on the universe. We’re asking ourselves, “What would it take to create a company that would have relevance for hundreds of years?” We are moving rapidly from our childhood days into adolescence — an interesting time, where one typically has a strong sense of self and is now battling…
In 2016, we put down our 10 (base 10) Engineering Commandments, the values that our Engineering Team uses to guide its work. We didn’t use a long, complex process to create them. One of our first engineers sat down and took some time to articulate the ideas that we should use to guide our decisions, all based on industry best…
The world today is connected more than ever before — everything that you wish to learn or build can be done with thousands of available resources on the internet. And even though this is great, there is unmatched learning that comes when you actually meet people from different backgrounds, knowledge and learn from their experiences. We started organizing meetups at…
