I am the CEO and founder of Lidr.co, an ecosystem that helps to grow great tech leaders. We foster a community and deliver live, online, practical trainings for aspiring and seasoned engineering leaders, from tech leads all the way up to CTOs. I was CTO for 8 years before starting this venture.

How big is it?‍

We are 7 people now, I act as CEO, 1 COO, 1 in Operations, 3 in Marketing, and 1 in sales‍

Where are your teammates located?‍

Barcelona (Spain), Madrid (Spain) and Bogotá (Colombia)‍

What does your team do? What are you responsible for?‍

At this moment I am a jack of all trades, defining the strategy of the company, but also involved in product definition, responsible of strategic partnerships, and overseeing main topics in operations, marketing and sales.

Communication, trust and autonomy.

Regular check-ins where we discuss much more than professional topics, getting personal is essential to build trust and feel engaged. Any meeting or event is a excuse to talk a bit with each other.

Creative work is very difficult to be handled remotely. Even with better and better collaboration tools, it’s not as effective as in person.

Also having and giving visibility about current progress and what the team is struggling with, basically communication. You have less excuses to have personal interactions so you need to be very disciplined on documentation and information sharing.

Nothing yet other than virtual hangouts.

Since we are a small team, we have enough with getting personal i.e. weekend plans, holidays plans, any familiar issue.

We have used karmabot in the past for both our team and our training programs, and now thinking about implementing our own version of heyburrito repo.

For sure, we created our community (community.lidr.co) with that specific purpose in mind. As a leader in tech, I didn’t find structured content to learn and a safe circle to discuss and share challenges. So I created it for me and for others in my situation.