We help companies scale faster

We’re on a mission to help scaling companies focus on their core competencies instead of compliance.

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Our Team

... where we try not to let titles get in the way of the work
Kristin Bass
ceo
Jordan Zomparelli
customer ops
Jackie Catala
customer ops
Hari Raghavan
dad-joke enthusiast

Our Values

Fairness

Being fair is in your long-term self-interest — choosing short term outcomes is tempting, but life is long, and the world is small. Life is a multi-turn game.

We try to make fair decisions by considering the intersection of empathy and pragmatism.

In case the concept of fairness is still fuzzy, here's a litmus test. A fair decision is usually one where a disinterested third party, who has access to all the relevant facts, thinks is reasonable.

Trust

Transparency for its own sake is distracting, but practicing trust leads to transparency where it's useful.

You shouldn't have to ask for either forgiveness or permission. Instead, ask your teammates for their thoughts (to make sure you aren't missing anything)... and then run with it.

Experimentation

Take risks and take initiative, especially with Type 2 decisions (those that are easy to reverse). We expect you to mess up once in a while, as long as you (and we as a company) learn something valuable from it.

Don't reinvent the oval wheels, just the square ones. Reason from the first principles. Question current practices, but without being iconoclastic. If the current "best practice" is solid based on logical reasoning, codify it. If "market standard" or "this is how it works" doesn't make sense, question it.

Curious people are just way more fun to be around. They're more fun to talk to, to learn from, and to grow together with.

Fairness

Being fair is in your long-term self-interest — choosing short term outcomes is tempting, but life is long, and the world is small. Life is a multi-turn game.

We try to make fair decisions by considering the intersection of empathy and pragmatism.

Being fair is in your long-term self-interest — choosing short term outcomes is tempting, but life is long, and the world is small. Life is a multi-turn game.

Trust

In case the concept of fairness is still fuzzy, here's a litmus test. A fair decision is usually one where a disinterested third party, who has access to all the relevant facts, thinks is reasonable.

You shouldn't ask for either forgiveness or permission. Instead, a trusting environment falls somewhere in the middle... ask your peers and managers for their thoughts on any thesis where you have conviction, to make sure you aren't missing anything. If so, run with it. This is the thoughtful way to break the mold.

Unblock Payroll

AO becomes a generational company when you take risks and take initiative, especially with Type 2 decisions (those that are easy to reverse). We expect you to mess up once in a while, as long as you (and we as a company) learn something valuable from it.

We're enabling every startup, every company to embody kaizen; not just based on their own history and "knowledge graph" but — through transparency and better data — the experience of thousands of other companies in their shoes.

We don't reinvent the oval wheels, just the square ones. We reason from the first principles. We question current practices but without being iconoclastic. If the current "best practice" is solid based on logical reasoning, we codify it. If "market norms" make no sense, we question why it works that way by a) stress-testing assumptions, and b) coming up with a better solution.

Plus, curious people are just way more fun to be around. They're more fun to talk to, to learn from, and to grow together with.

Fairness

Being fair is in your long-term self-interest — choosing short term outcomes is tempting, but life is long, and the world is small. Life is a multi-turn game.

We try to make fair decisions by considering the intersection of empathy and pragmatism.

Being fair is in your long-term self-interest — choosing short term outcomes is tempting, but life is long, and the world is small. Life is a multi-turn game.

Trust

In case the concept of fairness is still fuzzy, here's a litmus test. A fair decision is usually one where a disinterested third party, who has access to all the relevant facts, thinks is reasonable.

You shouldn't ask for either forgiveness or permission. Instead, a trusting environment falls somewhere in the middle... ask your peers and managers for their thoughts on any thesis where you have conviction, to make sure you aren't missing anything. If so, run with it. This is the thoughtful way to break the mold.

Unblock Payroll

AO becomes a generational company when you take risks and take initiative, especially with Type 2 decisions (those that are easy to reverse). We expect you to mess up once in a while, as long as you (and we as a company) learn something valuable from it.

We're enabling every startup, every company to embody kaizen; not just based on their own history and "knowledge graph" but — through transparency and better data — the experience of thousands of other companies in their shoes.

We don't reinvent the oval wheels, just the square ones. We reason from the first principles. We question current practices but without being iconoclastic. If the current "best practice" is solid based on logical reasoning, we codify it. If "market norms" make no sense, we question why it works that way by a) stress-testing assumptions, and b) coming up with a better solution.

Plus, curious people are just way more fun to be around. They're more fun to talk to, to learn from, and to grow together with.

Backed by the best in Silicon Valley & beyond

Naval Ravikant
Scott Belsky
Cindy Bi
Allison Pickens
Packy McCormick
Austin Reif
Sam Parr
Chris Golda
Austen Allred
Julian Shapiro
Avlok Kohli
Ankur Nagpal
Babak Nivi
Nikhil Gopalani

... plus, founders/CXOs at 20+ unicorns

Naval Ravikant
Scott Belsky
Cindy Bi
Allison Pickens
Packy McCormick
Austin Reif
Sam Parr
Chris Golda
Austen Allred
Julian Shapiro
Avlok Kohli
Ankur Nagpal
Babak Nivi
Nikhil Gopalani

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