Efim Gorbenko grew up near Mount Elbrus in southern Russia, moved to Canada at 16, and started his career drawing blueprints as an architect.
Today he looks after the infrastructure everything at @nationgraph runs on 👇
We started NationGraph to make uncommon knowledge common to ultimately help businesses understand the public sector.
The fun part is seeing how our data plays out in the real world. This is our first deep dive of many and @stockwell_matt knocked this one out of the park
A busy start to fall for the @NationGraph team 🍂
Lots of work and travel between our offices, from team hackathons to visiting different cities to shoot content, meet prospects and clients at conferences!
We have been working hard on exciting new developments in the product and can't wait to show you!
Alex Cotter grew up in Toronto, where his dad spent the last 41 years as a professional comedian.
The one rule at home: do what you love and put everything into it.
He found that at @nationgraph, where he leads our account management team👇️
GTM Engineering is one of the hottest roles in tech right now and we're hiring one at @nationgraph
If you identify as a great engineer that also has taste, come work with @chrislevan and I!
Hire people you know will quit.
I never understood why hiring managers/founders view candidates wanting to be future founders one day as a bad thing.
@tryramp ($44B valuation) deliberately hires future founders. Their CEO, @eglyman, says: I think the energy that founders bring is a determination, the desire to go build something new, push the norms, and try to take things faster. Having these kinds of people in your company who are restless, I think, is really valuable.
The company became a breeding ground for founders.
- @jsarihan, Co-Founder @crosbylegal ($400M valuation)
- @austinh___, Co-Founder @unifygtm ($40M Series B)
- @Pavel_Asparagus, Co-Founder, @SilnaHealth ($27M total funding)
- @hkimia, Co-Founder, @nationgraph ($18M Series A)
Ramp isn’t hurting because of their departures but absolutely benefited from their contributions.
To me, that’s the point.
We’re trying to take a similar path at @PlaykitUGC (and certainly have future founders already). These people have the traits we want to hire for: ambition, agency, willingness to figure it out, etc. So, we intentionally ask candidates where they want their careers to go. If it’s being a founder, we want to help develop the skills they’ll need for when the time comes.
The ambition that will make someone quit is also what makes them so valuable to you. Find it and reward it.
PS - credit to @rjnapolitano for the image idea!
Why does it feel like everything is way over budget and behind schedule nowadays?
It took 21 years and cost $346 Million to build a short bus lane in San Francisco.
The Golden Gate Bridge took 4.
What's changed? Is American Dynamism Dead?
We break it down on Episode 1 of NationGraph News 👇