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How They Work: Viximo

Aug 17 2011

Developing great company culture isn’t all just fun and games. Here at Wistia, we’ve been working hard to create an environment that brings out the best in every member of our team. In order to keep improving our game, we’ve been visiting companies we respect to learn how they work and what makes their culture unique. We’ll be sharing everything we learn though our favorite medium (video!) in an experiment we’re calling How They Work.

To kick off the series, we visited Viximo, our neighbors in Davis Square. Viximo provides a platform for connecting game developers with social networks, and the success of their product has driven their team to grow and their culture to evolve. To learn more, we made the short trip over to Viximo to hang out with Sean Lindsay, their co-founder and CTO (@rseanlindsay)

Here are a few of the small details that make Viximo’s culture unique:

  • During the interview process, they ask every employee what their impact on company culture will be and they’re not afraid to pass on great talent if the fit isn’t right.
  • They play a ton of music in their office (although we had to turn it off for the video – d’oh!)
  • They dedicate part of their space to house other startups, which fosters a collaborative atmosphere.

We hope you liked the first installment of How They Work, and we’d love to hear your feedback. What would you like to see more of? What questions do you think we should be asking? Which companies inspire your own company culture to evolve?

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  • http://www.yottaa.com Chris Weekly

    I know these guys personally and have been to their office a couple times. WYSIWYG. This video did a nice job of showing the great atmosphere there as it really is. I think Viximo is a paragon of startup culture, the way it should be. Hats off to Wistia, and more so to Sean and Chris and the rest of the team at Viximo, for showing the way. Keep it up!

  • http://fibreca.mp phil campbell

    these videos are AWESOME. great work guys. great your going out to your local community like this. wistia is going to be so massive! :)

  • http://www.wiziotec.com Thyaga

    Good.. but
    1. no diversity.
    2. what is the hiring process ? start-ups can be too picky and interviews can be time consuming.
    3. what kind of work/life balance ?
    4. what is the financial stability of the company ?

  • http://seanlindsay.com Sean Lindsay

    @Thyaga, thanks for the comments.

    1. From what you see in the video that’s probably a fair comment, although it doesn’t highlight that we have a large international business with partners, contractors and consultants from around the world. As for the crew you do see, those happen to be the most qualified candidates that have come our way, but we’d welcome diversifying new additions.
    2. We take hiring very seriously and certainly have a high bar (what you may mean by “picky”), but I think we are very efficient. We have a refined process and are willing to make quick decisions to close strong candidates or pass and save everyone involved a lot of time.
    3. I’m not sure what the right metric is here, but I’d say it’s “healthy”. Many of us have young families and wear the battle scars of improper work/life balance earlier in our careers. As you heard in the video, we value production not some artificial metric like “hours in seats”.
    4. We’re VC backed and generating solid revenue at this point. I wouldn’t say that directly influences our culture, but the path from zero to where we are today is certainly imprinted in our DNA.

  • http://www.adcuda.com Chris Luckey

    This looks like a fantastic place to work. As a small company we’re looking for the right balance of productivity and making sure everyone is happy and feels comfortable at work. Cause than it’s not really work I guess. We’re in the process of looking for a new location and just being about to see around this business’ environment gives me plenty of great ideas to help build some team camaraderie. I’m voting for a pool table and yes . . . more cooking out!

  • Jehanne

    I looks like a really fun place to work, but where are all the woman? There doesn’t seem to be much diversity at all for a company of it’s size. But I am loving the BBQ and the pool table!

  • http://www.seo-services.com Brian Greenberg

    Looks like great place to work. I like their core value of “getting stuff done”. As long as you get stuff done I agree that you should do whatever you want. Cool video.

  • Kathryn Porterfield

    did I only see one female face? is that typical of start-ups or things relating to gaming? Videos were great, by the way and does look like a fun place to work, very collaborative and social, but just wondered about the absence of females….

  • http://kanban.se Gustav

    Nice company, and great video? One of the things I like is the soundtrack. What is it? Is it something you have produced yourself, or have you found it at some royalty-free site?

  • http://www.blog-install.com Sean @ bloginstall

    Just love it! keep it up. I would like to work there… ping pong next to work bench … what harmony.

  • http://www.ucapusa.com Filiberto Dumm

    That dude really knows what’s he’s talking about.