Glenn Weinstein
Chief Executive Officer – OperationsHi! I'm Glenn, and I'm the CEO here at Cloudsmith. Thanks for digging around our careers site - that's already a good sign that you might be a future Cloudsmither!
You can get a quick summary of the career that's led me to Cloudsmith by clicking my LinkedIn profile above, so let me get a bit more personal here.
I say often that I have 3 asks of all Cloudsmithers -
- Assume positive intent from other Cloudsmithers.
- Fix it, or delete it. A day spent "writing" -100 lines of code, or deleting a bunch of obsolete Notion pages, is a productive day.
- Think 10x or 100x scale. Be wary of the quick fix - will we want to live with this when we're a MUCH bigger company?
When I think of a great Cloudsmither, here's what comes to mind -
- Coder at heart. You have a natural curiosity about how technical things work - programming languages, development and deployment tools, massive-scale cloud applications. You peruse Datadog logs for fun.
- Great teammate. It's amazing what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit.
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Empathy for customers. Our customers are mostly software developers, like us. They're trying to get a job done. When they're stuck, or we've managed to confuse them - your instinct is to set everything aside, and jump in and help.
My favorite moments at Cloudsmith are seeing other Cloudsmithers shine.
- When someone who definitely doesn't like public speaking, get up in front of the company at an offsite and present a 15-minute Lightning Talk.
- When a low-key Cloudsmither gets a shoutout on our #cheers-for-peers Slack channel, and there's more emoji reactions on the post than we have Cloudsmithers in total.
- When a Google Doc goes around with someone's writeup of a cool new idea, and a bunch of Cloudsmithers jump in with interesting comments, because we're all engaged and invested in making Cloudsmith better.
I love all the values in the Tao of Cloudsmith, but mainly I love the Tao because -
- It's opinionated. These aren't generic niceties.
- It's oriented towards the mentality of software developers.
- It includes my favorite value - Collective Ownership. The company belongs to all of us; everyone is empowered to ask tough (or silly!) questions, make small improvements, shake things up.
That'll do it for now. I hope you'll consider joining us!