Meet, Eat, Scale, Repeat: How food can ease your team’s growing pains
Lightning Talk (5 min.)
[Culture]
Your team’s growing, and that’s awesome! But that also means it’s starting to lose some of the fun vibes and close relationships of a small startup. You might’ve noticed that:
- Everyone knows a lot less about one another
- Teammates feel uncomfortable asking one another for help
- New employees find it harder to blend in
- Small cliques are forming, and some might not welcome “outsiders”
Don’t worry! That’s normal, but there is something you can do.
In this talk, I’ll explain how we implemented a “Lunch Roulette” to help ease the pain of growing from 0 to 100 team members in two years, how it strengthened the personal connections inside our team, and how you can have one too