My first year at Bitrise

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince.

Just like the moral of the story "The Little Prince," I associate working at Bitrise (or any young company) with an act of falling in love with what you do and seeing the beauty in what you're building... even when the tough times rear their heads. At the end of the day, that is why I choose to work in a startup environment, to be a builder, to create with the people around me who are crazy enough to build something bigger than we are.

My first year at Bitrise has been nothing but a roller coaster of motions that have led to the last year feeling more like 90 days. When I first arrived, I knew there was a lot of ground to make up for but more importantly a lot of work to do to guide us in a direction that would enable long-term success. Some of the team was, one could say, "cautiously optimistic" about our ability to execute and to be honest, who wouldn't be a lot of the time? Every few months there arises a new challenge that can alter the trajectory of the company.

Over the last year we have not just smashed our goals, but in most cases obliterated milestones and have innovated on the industry-standard best practices such as building a sales development team that also is allowed to close deals. One of the greatest achievements is that we have built a team whose shared trait is curiosity. Every single person at all times is looking to understand more, more about our process and how to make it better, more about our clients and how to make them more successful. We are building an environment that demands excellence but at the same time allows us to be who are are, which is being humans who can make mistakes.

I count myself lucky every day that I get to stand next to the teammates who make me better every day. The ones who challenge me when I am not performing to the standards we hold ourselves to. The teammates who take tasks off of each other's plates without asking and deliver a v1 of something that levels us up. The teammates who simply show up every single day ready to be better than they were previously. The teammates who become your friends, who become your family.

I have said this before and after a year I find it even more true. In your life, you are lucky to work with one or two truly amazing teams, and I am lucky enough to say this is one of them. I couldn't, we couldn't do what we do every day without the combined effort of everyone's Grit and sheer demand of excellence to build something great. This brings me back to my quote above, we often are constantly looking for the result of our hard work with some tangible monetary outcome. In reality, what is the most valuable and often most tangible was the work that went into creating that 'rose', the relationships and personal growth that came from the journey... that is what is most valuable.

In one year we've doubled revenue, launched a next-gen platform drastically improving our customers performance, and began building frameworks that will take us to $100m ARR and beyond... and we are only just getting started. Come join our team.

At bitrise, our strengths lie in the differences that make up who we are. We strive to foster an environment of diverse backgrounds and perspectives and accelerate that with radical candor so that we create an open and quickly iterative environment that enables us to be the best and most impactful versions of ourselves every single day.