Rethinking "calm company"

Podcast: Justin's brain · Justin Jackson

Opublikowano: 2026-11-03

Years ago, I wrote an essay called The Calm Company. It came out of watching startups burn people out with 80-hour weeks while quietly running out of money. That essay ended up shaping a lot of how we built Transistor. Transistor has given me a foundation for calm. We don’t track hours, we pay well, and if your kid’s home sick, you go take care of them. But getting Transistor off the ground was incredibly hard, and staying competitive is still hard. So lately, I’ve been wondering if the essay needs a revisio...