Building The Machine Podcast Episode 2 - Alex MacCaw, CEO of Clearbit

Show notes for Alex MacCaw & Eric Friedman interview diving deep into Clearbit and how he is Building The Machine.

• How the leadership and 1:1s run via Notion

• Origin of the company and how the team was formed - now at 100 (SF + distributed across US)

• Understanding the leadership team + structure + going remote so early

• What tools, services, and software stack are used inside Clearbit?

  • Diving deep into Asana, Slack, Zoom, and Notion amongst others.

  • How do they choose tools that multiple people use vs. personal tools?

• What the early days of 5 people vs. 100 people today what are the challenges of doubling in size of the team?

• Where do things breakdown with the team and at what size?

• The role of executive coaching with a founder

• When OKRs were implemented?

• How impeccable agreements work and how the WHO and WHEN of a professional contract works within Clearbit - this is a way to track accountability and negotiating deliverables and how they are tracked within the firm.

• How the internal "intranet" works and how things are organized.

• AORs vs OKRs

• Tactical takeaways or almost any manager or IC