Intro
Accord is founded on the idea that collaboration and building better relationships leads to ideal outcomes and happier people! 🤗
Not surprisingly, these core beliefs are what our company culture is built on. Although culture is constantly evolving, we hope this gives you a peek into what it means to be an Accordion.
Some background:
- Accord is a customer collaboration platform that creates better relationships between buyers and sellers in the B2B world.
- Founded by early Stripe, LinkedIn, & Google Cloud leaders & recently funded by Stripe & YC with a recent $10M in Series A funding, led by Diana Berlin of Matrix Partners!
- Customers already include: Figma, Okta, Metadata.io, Productboard, VeryGoodSecurity, Stripe, MongoDB, Alteryx, and other modern sales orgs.
- We're have hybrid work model and are looking for fellow passionate problem solvers to join our growing crew!
Values
Our core values are a reflection of Accord's vision and mission. They drive our day-to-day interactions and how we work together. 🙌
🐼 Everybody is a Product Person
We have a shared drive and passion to create. This extends far past just building Accord's software platform and into every aspect of the company. We don't want Accordions to simply "stay in their lane" and prefer a feeling of joint ownership building together.
From talking to customers to hiring processes, it shouldn't matter if you happen to be in engineering, product or go to market... we should all be thoughtful in our approach of building a category defining company!
🦄 10/10
We strive for excellence in our craft. 9/10 is not enough when your aspirations are high. The last 10% delivers 90% of the value and truly differentiates a company.
We deliver 10/10 experiences to our customers and fellow Accordions. We balance moving fast by keeping this value in mind even when trying new things. Crawl, walk, then run.
🦁 Integrity Over Everything
We value Integrity above all else. What is success without feeling good about how you got there? We believe what really matters is what we do when no one is watching.
If we make a mistake like introducing a bug that potentially impacts our users, we are proactive in our communication and take responsibility. We don't "wait and see" if they noticed or pass the blame onto others.
If we could cut a corner to win a deal or grow faster but it negatively affects others, it's an easy decision to do the right thing.
🐝 Radical Collaboration
From Engineering to Customer Success, we work, win, and grow together.
Although collaboration can be tough when it comes to building a hybrid company, it also creates unique opportunities. For example, everything needs to be much more well documented to drive effective async collaboration. Also, charism matters less when meetings aren't in-person so it's harder for underlying strategy to be countered simply by energy.
We take a thoughtful approach to bringing in various Accordions and disciplines together whenever we're solving a problem.
Cordie
You might have noticed, each value at Accord has a corresponding emoji animal! We also give out a weekly award to celebrate the Accordion who has embodied a core value during the week.
Meet our value spirit animal - Cordie! (a cute combo of our 4 value animal emojis)
