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#96 - Radical Transparency feat. Charles Gorintin // CTO @ Alan & Co-Founding Advisor at Mistral
Radical Transparency in Salaries, Decisions, and People
Discover the power of radical transparencyđ§ with Charles Gorintin, CTO of Alan (a French InsurTech) and founding force behind Mistral. He may work in a regulated space, but there is nothing typical about Alanâs setup when it comes to internal matters.
Public Salary Framework â
Searchable Board Meetings â
4 Managers for 90 FTEâ
Listen to find out:
Listen here
BROUGHT TO YOU BY instaffo and DoiT
Timestamps:
(02:00) Into
(03:33) What is Alan?
(05:37) Challenges and Successes in the Insurance Industry
(06:40) The Importance of Learning and Adapting in Entrepreneurship
(07:06) What is it like to work in a regulated industry?
(12:12) What 3 Master's Degrees gave him
(13:40) Why Mistral was founded
(16:00) His involvement in Mistral
(18:43) Why as CTO he is more focused on people than tech (Non-Technical CTO)
(21:12) Move Fast and Break Things
(22:36) Culture of Transparency
(24:07) Cross-team exposure: Bootcamp and Hacker Month at Meta
(26:04) Remote
(27:37) The Power of Transparency and Fairness in Business
(28:22) Why salaries should be transparent?
(30:17) Why Levels Are Public
(31:14) Public Performance Reviews
(31:35) Tools for Performance Reviews
(31:53) Company Strategy in the Open
(34:07) Leveraging LLMs for Internal Knowledge Management
(35:43) 3 Parts to Knowledge
(37:14) Leads and Coaches instead of Managers
(39:24) Transparency in Decision Making
(39:28) Silos in the Company?
(40:32) How are Coaches Assigned
(41:11) How Coaching Sessions Are Scheduled
(42:38) Leveraging LLMs in 1:1s
(44:44) Is Radical Transparency for Everyone?
(45:52) Distributed Ownership
(46:11) Power of Leveraging GitHub Discussion for Discussions and Decisions
(46:53) Company Culture of Freedom and Responsibility (ala Netflix)
(48:30) Why Talent Density is Important
(49:52) Honest Performance Reviews
(51:37) Hiring for the Culture Add
(53:37) Minimal Meetings
(55:30) Creating Culture in a Remote Environment
(56:23) 1:1s and Focus Time
(58:46) Company Onsite
(59:36) 3 Things
About Charles Gorintin#
Charles Gorintin is the co-founder and CTO of Alan (a French InsurTech) and Cofounding Advisor at Mistral. Prior to co-founding Alan, Charles Gorintin was a data science leader at fast-growing social networks, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, where he worked on fighting fake accounts, on growth, and on social psychology.
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DoiT addresses these challenges head-on with an intelligent product portfolio and market-leading cloud expertise that equips engineering and finance teams to understand cloud costs in the context of their business, maximise savings with minimal effort, and make costs more predictable.
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By Tobias Schlottke - alphalist CTO Podcast
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Radical Transparency in Salaries, Decisions, and People
Discover the power of radical transparencyđ§ with Charles Gorintin, CTO of Alan (a French InsurTech) and founding force behind Mistral. He may work in a regulated space, but there is nothing typical about Alanâs setup when it comes to internal matters.
Public Salary Framework â
Searchable Board Meetings â
4 Managers for 90 FTEâ
Listen to find out:
Listen here
BROUGHT TO YOU BY instaffo and DoiT
Timestamps:
(02:00) Into
(03:33) What is Alan?
(05:37) Challenges and Successes in the Insurance Industry
(06:40) The Importance of Learning and Adapting in Entrepreneurship
(07:06) What is it like to work in a regulated industry?
(12:12) What 3 Master's Degrees gave him
(13:40) Why Mistral was founded
(16:00) His involvement in Mistral
(18:43) Why as CTO he is more focused on people than tech (Non-Technical CTO)
(21:12) Move Fast and Break Things
(22:36) Culture of Transparency
(24:07) Cross-team exposure: Bootcamp and Hacker Month at Meta
(26:04) Remote
(27:37) The Power of Transparency and Fairness in Business
(28:22) Why salaries should be transparent?
(30:17) Why Levels Are Public
(31:14) Public Performance Reviews
(31:35) Tools for Performance Reviews
(31:53) Company Strategy in the Open
(34:07) Leveraging LLMs for Internal Knowledge Management
(35:43) 3 Parts to Knowledge
(37:14) Leads and Coaches instead of Managers
(39:24) Transparency in Decision Making
(39:28) Silos in the Company?
(40:32) How are Coaches Assigned
(41:11) How Coaching Sessions Are Scheduled
(42:38) Leveraging LLMs in 1:1s
(44:44) Is Radical Transparency for Everyone?
(45:52) Distributed Ownership
(46:11) Power of Leveraging GitHub Discussion for Discussions and Decisions
(46:53) Company Culture of Freedom and Responsibility (ala Netflix)
(48:30) Why Talent Density is Important
(49:52) Honest Performance Reviews
(51:37) Hiring for the Culture Add
(53:37) Minimal Meetings
(55:30) Creating Culture in a Remote Environment
(56:23) 1:1s and Focus Time
(58:46) Company Onsite
(59:36) 3 Things
About Charles Gorintin#
Charles Gorintin is the co-founder and CTO of Alan (a French InsurTech) and Cofounding Advisor at Mistral. Prior to co-founding Alan, Charles Gorintin was a data science leader at fast-growing social networks, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, where he worked on fighting fake accounts, on growth, and on social psychology.
About our sponsors
Instaffo
Instaffo is a recruiting platform that allows you to hire tech talent in less than 25 days. It is loved by over 600 companies - including HelloFresh, Amazon, and MyPoster.
By leveraging sophisticated matchmaking and allowing you to chat directly with pre-qualified tech talent right on the platform theyâve made the hiring process 3X more effective. From âMatchedâ to âChatâ in one go.
While classic job portals, in-house active sourcing and headhunters give you the headache of paying upfront, having high setup efforts and dealing with 30% hiring fees, with Instaffo this now history for you.
As an alphalist listener, you get to enjoy the Instaffo recruiting platform absolutely free until you find that perfect hire.
Already over 2.000 tech talents and companies are connected weekly on instaffo, so what are you waiting for? Go to https://instaffo.com/cto to get started.
DoiT
As the cloud landscape has evolved, so have its challenges. The shift from adopting to optimising public cloud infrastructure has forced born-in-the-cloud digital natives to grapple not only with growing technical complexities but also the intricacies of cost management and evolving best practices.
DoiT addresses these challenges head-on with an intelligent product portfolio and market-leading cloud expertise that equips engineering and finance teams to understand cloud costs in the context of their business, maximise savings with minimal effort, and make costs more predictable.
Need help making sense of (and optimising) your cloud costs? Set up a call with a DoiT expert to learn about gaining access to DoiTâs FinOps and infrastructure specialists
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