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How to Work Asynchronously with David Barrett of Expensify

For Starters with Alexa von Tobel

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What I've Learned From Your Management Philosophy?

The most important decisions don't happen in code. They happen basically between people and that's where all the real efficiency comes. Every person you hire brings at most one person's worth of productivity like this by definition. So if you want to have a super creative organization you need to maximize that connectivity between your people. The way that we solve that is we're very selective in hiring. We only hire people that are strong national talents meaning that you can learn without being taught and you can teach others what you know. Two, we only hire people who have a genuine ambition, a desire to accomplish something with their own lives. That's why we're so much more efficient than public companies because we

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