Weekly cadences create momentum

Chesky uses "semi assembly" to mean a working prototype or demo build, similar to how car companies create partial vehicle prototypes during development.

Every week I would try to see the equivalent of at least a semi assembly of the entire new product we were working on, which allowed me to identify with teams the different bottlenecks happening in the company.

We still have our founders, Nick and Vlad, very hands-on going down to details for every product and every part of the business. Every week they have product reviews with every team.

OpenAI has such a slack heavy culture and it really... The instantaneous real time communication on Slack is so crucial. And I just love being able to tag in different people from different teams and get everybody coalesced.

Eric Simons is CEO of StackBlitz, discussing their daily company-wide meetings where "front to back" means comprehensive review of all work and priorities.

We all meet every day. Pretty much the entire team gets on a call, and we just kind of front to back... There's 0% fidelity loss in that. Everything, every day, is being audited front to back.

I implemented a system to manage that kind of intake with four different touch points: weekly demo days, working sessions, breaking news dress rehearsals, and office hours.