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Lenny Rachitsky: evaluation

14 Apr 2024 Lenny's Podcast The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)

“I love the way of describing it. And it's the exact opposite of Uber who's one of their values I think was encouraging toe stepping.”

— Lenny Rachitsky

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Lenny Rachitsky
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14 Apr 2024
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Lenny's Podcast

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…It does. And part of that ties back to those other values. You aren't your work. So if someone's reaching over and doing something in your space, that's where if you have long toes as they're called, you feel like people are stepping on you. Whereas if you had short toes, it's about contributing and so forth. It's so funny. I love the way of describing it. And it's the exact opposite of Uber who's one of their values I think was encouraging toe stepping. Step on toes, don't worry about it. Long toes. Our approach was to take the other side of the move fast and break things. It's more about building that community, that trust and everyone hitting the results together.…

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