Pros
The ceo is committed to building as he says a world class team with a culture in which we must see ourselves as empowered co-principals. The talent level is extremely high. But there is little sense of big egos. Just the opposite, because we all recognize this is rare and all believe in the mission, we're extremely collaborative. People take the mission seriously and work hard, very hard for the most part, but they don't take themselves too seriously.
Cons
We want to be together more often since we're largely virtual. We had a retreat for the company 7 months ago and will do another in 4 months. I think we need more but the company is being very careful with spending. I get that but we can find ways to do lower cost retreats more often. That said there are mini retreats which we'll fly into in NY where a group works at WeWork. I think there are also too many meetings - I know we're working on that