How Communication Leads to Hypergrowth with Alex Hood, Chief Product Officer at Asana and Abhinav Asthana, Co-founder and CEO at Postman

Alex Hood, Chief Product Officer at Asana, and Abhinav Asthana, Co-founder and CEO at Postman, discuss how to scale hypergrowth products, build community at your company, and stop bottlenecks from happening.

Key Takeaways

• The best companies prioritize using the best software tools.
  
• Create communication flows that build your company’s culture and community.
  
• Having an advanced tech stack signals to your employees and potential hires that you are both forward-thinking and open to new ideas.  

Key Quotes

“If you’re going to adopt something horizontally, look for something where the internal champions are from a broad set of different teams that have to work cross-functionally by nature.” – Alex

“Every company is becoming a technology company and, in fact, is going to become a software company, and developers are at the center of it.” – Abhinav

“The intangibles really matter. They set up cultural norms where people feel like they can be productive and they feel like they’re in a supportive atmosphere. If you only consider the outputs and the outcome, then you’ll burn people out.” – Alex

“When every year you hire a company’s worth of people, you have to really think about ‘is this a new company or is this the same company?’ And you really have to put in the work to ensure it’s the same company, and the culture is not getting diluted.” – Abhinav

Links

Alex Hood LinkedIn

Abhinav Asthana LinkedIn

Asana

Postman

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