Still work to be done - Anonymous employee Flexport Employee Review

If you’re reading this OP, I would love to get an update on how you think we’ve done on these issues. Feels to me like we made tremendous progress in these areas in the last 6 months of 2018. As for hiring my friends, two things I would say. First, I have tons of friends, and would never hire 99% of them. Instead I hired the two smartest people I was friends with (one was a partner at BCG and the other is and remains the greatest salesperson on planet earth). I did that in the early days when I was just starting out and you had to be a little crazy to join me. But these guys trusted me, and we had phenomenal results over the last 5 years —we literally built flexport together, so I definitely won’t apologize for that. But yeah, it was a unique time in our early life as a company and unlikely to ever happen again.