How to Build a High Performing Global Distributed Team - Learning from Goodnotes.
Building a globally distributed team means high operation cost, difficult to manage and lower productivity?
Not Necessarily! It is challenging to scale with the restriction of fixed locations, you will either be hit by high cost or lack of talent. It is a huge leverage if a startup can tap in global talent, and build a high-performing culture among a multi-culture distributed team.
Vivien Ko is the head of talent & people operation of Goodnotes. She was the first and only talent manager in Goodnotes when it was a team of less than 20 members all based in Hong Kong. Vivien built the infrastructure to hire globally, as well as to cultivate an engaging and high performing culture with a fully distributed team. Goodnotes is now a 300+ strong team, with team members from 30+ countries, formerly working for Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Uber and the like.
In this fireside chat (online), you will learn
Expansion stories of a couple HK-based startups
How to do the first hire outside of your based, and to scale to 30+ countries.
How to keep a multicultural distributed team engage and high performing
Fully Distributed vs Multiple Hubs
Do and don’ts when sacling
And more!
About Vivien
Vivien is the head of talent & people operation of Goodnotes and one of the early members as well as the first female hire. Vivien built the infrastructure for Goodnotes to hire globally, and to cultivate an engaging and high performing culture with a fully distributed team. Prior to that, Vivien was employee #5 at Neat - a Fintech start up in Hong Kong (acquired by Rapyd), where Vivien wears multiple hats from business development to customer support to recruitment and people operations, she supported Neat’s expansion from 5 to 40 employees across Hong Kong and China. Prior to that Vivien was a senior consultant at Aspire - a global recruitment agency based in London.
About Philip
Philip is a co-founder of FoundersHK, advisor & mentor to various startups and currently building a stealth startup. Philip was a former VP of Engineering of Goodnotes, helped to scale the engineering team from 40 to 170 globally as well as shaping a higher performing culture. Prior to that, Philip is a co-founder of NEX - an AI entertainment startup based Silicon and Hong Kong raised a total of USD 40M (as of today). Philip was ex-engineering manager of Apple & Microsoft in Silicon Valley
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