influences.md

Direct experience

• Nextel Communications (enterprise)
• Viget Labs (consulting)
• Heroku (stable startup, acquired)
• LivingSocial (growing startup)
• Wantful (small startup, shut down)
• 6Wunderkinder (small, stable startup)
• Operable (small startup, shut down)
• BookBub (small, stable startup)

Hearsay

• GitHub
• Valve
• Netflix
  • http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
  • http://hbr.org/2014/01/how-netflix-reinvented-hr/ar/1#!
• Zappos

Open salaries

• Buffer

Email transparency

• Stripe
• Khan Academy

Diversity

• LambdaJam's diversity policy

Time off

• Jacob Kaplan-Moss on unlimited time off
• Mathias Meyer on minimum time off

Organization

• Spotify Engineering Culture, part 1

Technology

• Mike Nygard on avoiding entity services