Our DNA & Values
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Our DNA: What drives success at FounderNest
At FounderNest, we believe that the best teams are built on shared DNA traits. Here’s what makes someone succeed at FounderNest.
- 🤝 Humility without Egos: To listen, learn, adapt, and grow together, prioritizing collective success over personal recognition. There is always something new to learn from others!
- 🧠 Intellectual Ambition: To see challenges as opportunities and thrive in a team of brilliant minds. Always curious and resourceful, with a 10X mindset and first-principles thinking approach, we innovate, adapt, and ask: "What’s next?
- 🚀 Agency & Ownership: To be proactive, take the lead and hold the difficult conversations without being asked to, take initiative, embrace accountability, and lead and build with purpose in order to succeed in our high-performing environment.
- 👥 100% Team Player: To always make decisions with the team in mind, knowing that collaboration doesn’t just add impact—it multiplies it. Together we are stronger.
- 💪 Hard-Working: To go the extra mile with focus and passion while ensuring balance is maintained, fostering sustainable long-term excellence.
- ⚡Outcome-Driven Mindset: To focus on making things happen—zero fluff, just real impact. It’s about owning results, moving fast, and focusing on what truly drives change.
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Our Values: CALIBER
We pride ourselves on having built an open, humble, diverse, supportive, and truly unique culture that revolves around our seven values codified in the word CALIBER.
- 🎯 Customer Excellence: Our users have to experience excellence in all we do. Excellence attracts excellence. We hire people and technology smarter than us.
- 💨 Agility: Towards building adaptability to change and without compromising excellence. No analysis paralysis. A strong sense of urgency. We disagree and commit.
- 🙇🏼♂️ Learning: To constantly learn and give constructive feedback in any direction towards personal and professional growth.
- 🪄 Innovation: To lead through constant innovation that does not compromise simplicity. The impossible is possible.
- ⚖️ Balance: To not hesitate to go the extra mile when required and without waiting for someone to tell you. To also take time off any time you need it.
- 😇 Ethics: To be frugal and radically truthful and transparent and to never behave unethically. Cannot afford to die of success or arrogance.
- 🫂 Respect: To always suspend judgment and assume positive intent, to be compassionate, and to have no ego. We admit mistakes proactively, recognize others’ achievements, and are thankful and appreciative of them.