by M.H. Lines | Jun 21, 2021 | Best Practices, Culture and Values
Transparency can be scary. Especially at a company when failures are certain to happen. AKA every company. #failshappen. It is natural to want to cover up the low points, whether to keep your team, and yourself looking good or to not worry teammates about challenges...
by Adam New-Waterson | Apr 21, 2021 | Culture and Values, Marketing Operations
It’s the thing everyone hates to hear the most — the system went down. In our case, last week for several hours overnight, one of our APIs went offline affecting a percentage of our clients. Once we realized the service was offline, it was fixed within 22... by M.H. Lines | Jan 27, 2021 | Culture and Values
Automaton is now Stack Moxie. Even though I love the name, I hate it. I loved the name Automaton when my cofounder Andy and I sat down in 2016 and came up with it. I was shocked to see it available in a trademark search. It represented everything I thought the company... by Adam New-Waterson | Mar 25, 2020 | Culture and Values
Succession planning isn’t just a technique for managers to think through a graceful exit from a company, it can also be a useful, reflective, once-a-year exercise for specialists, analysts, and other individual contributors to identify what to get off their... by Andrew Graves | Feb 24, 2020 | Agile Marketing, Culture and Values
An important element in a marketing team’s journey to becoming agile is adopting a culture of continuous learning. This learning needs to come not only from the team’s successes, but more importantly, from its failures. When customers on our platform discover issues... by M.H. Lines | Sep 30, 2019 | Culture and Values
This summer, as we prepared to launch V2 of our platform to the world, we spent a bit of time on our values again. I was lucky enough that Heather Clarson is my cousin- in addition to an incredible career at Coca-Cola, she now leads development at the Atlanta...