Pros
Inspiring mission which attracts great people. Beautiful space to work. Strong benefits. Alcohol after the all hands, which helps it go down.
Cons
For years Kickstarter has had a leadership in some form of crisis or another. When Yancey took over the leadership was mostly Yancey’s friends or people who’d worked closely with him for years. Then he hired some outside people to clean it up and that caused a war. Then things calmed down but there was clearly always a Cold War with Perry. I don’t know what happened but then Perry took over again. Yancey publicly promised a CEO search and that turned out to be a lie. Now the cycle restarts with Perry’s friends at the top. It’s not that there haven’t been good leaders hired in or elevated. But they have generally been driven out or quit in a matter of months. All the while the board does nothing. It’s not clear there is any accountability for the CEOs. And for years we didn’t have proper HR leadership with the experience to navigate this. It’s all very sad.
