Describing the company of today
Viktor Farcic: Switching gears a little, if you were to start a company today, what would it look like? How would people behave and interact with it?
Andy Clemenko: I'm a big fan of smaller companies, where the lines between teams are blurred. So, if I'm starting a start-up, I want to make sure that our internal IT understands our product, and that everybody can work collaboratively. I think once you start getting over a couple of hundred people in size, that's when the fences immediately go up.
Something I hear time and time again from customer interaction is, "Oh, that's the networking team. They'll get to it when they can." With these fences, you have different North Stars, different goals, or you have different strategies or managers. I'm a fan of a flat organization with cross-functional teams. Like today, you might be interested in monitoring and helping with a customer solution, but that doesn't mean that internal...