다양성 포용: 스케일업 스토리
Tadaweb사는 2011년도에 인간의 지능을 확장할 수 있는 작은 데이터 플랫폼을 만들기 위해 인터넷에서 정보를 수집하고 분석할 수 있도록 하는 기발한 아이디어에서 시작되었다. 10년이 지난 지금, 회사는 직원 100명으로 성장했으며, 룩셈부르크 본사 외에도 파리와 런던에 지사를 두고 있다. Tadaweb사의 공동창립자 Genna Elvin씨는 이들의 제품 개발에 있어 룩셈부르크의 다문화적 조직 환경이 다양한 의견을 만들어 회사 발전에 많은 도움이 되었다고 말했다.
Like many start-ups, Tadaweb kicked off its activity in 2011 with one employee, an investment of €70,000 and a bright idea: creating a small data platform able to scale human intelligence for gathering and analysing information on the internet. Ten years later, the company has grown to almost 100 people and has offices in Paris and London besides its Luxembourg headquarters, where most of the staff is located. A new office in Canada is underway.
Diversity for better performance
The current Tadaweb team is made up of 23 different nationalities. “In the beginning, the main language spoken in our offices was French,” says co-founder Genna Elvin, who herself is from New Zealand. “As the team grew, we needed to change our dialogue to English and invested a lot in language courses to facilitate this transition. However, having so many cultures and nationalities has been great. Our staff offer very different takes on how products should be developed, how meetings should be run and how the company should grow. They really challenge the traditional way of doing things, which is completely beneficial for us.”
Our international team really challenges the traditional way of doing things, which is completely beneficial for us.
Tadaweb also puts a lot of emphasis on its recruitment and onboarding process. “We love to hire locally in the Benelux region, and interact with universities to spot interesting people. However, for some roles such as designers, developers and customer development specialists, we also have to go global,” Ms Elvin explains. “We provide extensive practical support to help people settle and make them happy here, and as we are in full expansion, our challenge is to scale our personalised approach as we recruit batches of people.”
Attractive for international teams
Getting top talent to Luxembourg is, according to her, not an issue. “Expats love the family setting in Luxembourg, the easy use of English and the good pubs in the city! We recently had a COO post open and received 3,000 applications from all over the world. People are excited about coming here.”
Expats love the family setting in Luxembourg, the easy use of English and the good pubs in the city!
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