Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

A great pen basically for me is someone that is relentless until he gets this impact, until he validates that this impact is in place. In some cases, doing the biggest impact is not developing another feature. It's about making the current value more accessible. We've been at this for eight years. You said there's two hundred fifty thousand customers at this point. What would you say is the most counterintuitive thing you've learned through this journey of building Monday? We really have an approach of very radical transparency about everything. Before we went public, we actually shared Every bit of information. with our employees. Instead of demoralizing people, I think that this is something that gives them a sense of deep partnership. We really want everyone's brains in the challenge and not just one centralized brain and a lot of walking hands.

You basically realized that your competitors were Shipping a lot faster than you were that made you shift the way you think about product and the way you operate. Some of our competitors did something that we can only imagine. We said okay, we need to treat it differently. We receive the gift from our competitors. They showed us. But it's possible. Use your competition, know it and take it and set ambitious goals and believe in yourself and you can do amazing things.

Today my guest is Daniel Larrea. Daniel's currently chief product and technology officer at Monday.com. He joined when they were just around 40 employees. And a few years in, Daniel and the exec team realized that their competitors were able to move a lot faster than they were and ship a lot more often than they were. And that spurred a transformation. And how they build and operate their teams.

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