Ditching the rules to build a team that lasts | Bryan Cantrill, Steve Tuck (Oxide)

From building a new kind of server to building a new kind of company, co-founders Bryan and Steve join the show to chat about their "meet cute" and the origin story of Oxide, their unconventional recruiting process, transparent and uniform salaries, and their solution to the "N+1 shithead problem".

Segments:
(00:03:03) Bryan and Steve's "meet cute"
(00:05:56) "the sun does not shine on me"
(00:12:19) the dagger that went into sun
(00:21:23) culture of exonerating yourself vs solving customer problems
(00:23:25) the shared "error in judgment" of joining joyent
(00:27:54) the origin story of joyent
(00:29:44) reporting to the (physical) chair
(00:31:26) the comically bad ceo candidate
(00:36:23) the enterprise software shift
(00:40:21) the importance of curiosity in sales
(00:48:30) filtering for curiosity in hiring
(00:52:26) oxide's unconventional hiring process
(01:04:01) bryan's worst hire
(01:05:21) the limitations of traditional hiring
(01:08:32) the value of written reflections
(01:10:28) "what were the happiest moments in your career?"
(01:21:16) misconceptions about sales and go-to-market
(01:22:03) trust and alignment in sales
(01:30:24) building connections across organizations
(01:34:23) how to do performance reviews when everyone's paid the same?
(01:40:00) the power of transparency in compensation
(01:50:14) validation through impact
(01:53:14) origins of on the metal
(01:55:45) transparency and open communication
(02:01:32) the importance of storytelling
(02:04:56) building a company differently

Show Notes:
- Bryan’s blog post on the transparent and uniform compensation model at Oxide: https://oxide.computer/blog/compensat...
- On the Metal’s interview with Jeff Rothschild: https://share.transistor.fm/s/6fa1eaa4

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Music:
Vlad Gluschenko — Forest
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...