MongoDB

In the words of a friend I recently asked to come to our new top-floor Sussex St Chinatown office for interviews:

“The people here are really switched on.”

In their spare time, they work on being allies and advancing the causes of gender equality, building artificial endocrine systems, playing amazing board games I have not even heard of, table tennis, women’s groups, escape rooms, MIT puzzles challenges, skunkworks, sustainability – all of which dwarfs my teamwork in successfully defending a world championship with UNSW Computer Science and Engineering in teaching robots to play soccer, with no human intervention and no remote control; or advancing the cause of mathematics education via building out a step-by-step platform for ideas worth spreading, like “Should we be paying our kids to do their maths homework?”

A long-term focus on thinking big and going far. Please don't apply at MongoDB if you aren't expecting to be with MongoDB for the four-year contract.

My only regret in the past 18 months is that while I have taken advantage of the opportunity to talk to C-suite executives on several occasions, I have not yet had the courage to ask them and long-term investors like Chetan Puttagunta:

“If our goal is to win the hearts and minds of developers, why should MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB) not join Salesforce (Nasdaq: CRM) and Atlassian (Nasdaq: TEAM) in pledging 1%?”

Given MongoDB’s core values, I suspect the answer may well be not if, but when.