The document discusses scaling up a team for performance and happiness. @khailee has experience growing teams from 4-30 staff and $10M revenues to over 100 staff and IPO. As a founder and investor, they've seen that scaling team culture is difficult. The document will share ideas and stories on scaling up teams, especially after raising money when expectations are high. Maintaining culture as the team grows quickly and new senior hires join is a challenge they want to discuss.

1. @khailee
Scale Up Your Team

2. Hi, my name is @khailee, I love creating things.
Grew up in Malaysia Been building websites since I was 15 years old.

3. FOUNDER FOUNDER
Creating startups has a lot to do with creating teams
EARLY EMPLOYEE
MindValley.com
SAYS.com
(exit Catcha Group)
GroupsMore
(exit Groupon)
4 to 30 staff
$10M revenues
in 18 months
Today makes $30M
revenues, very
profitable, never
raised outside capital.
2 to 40 Staff
+100 Staff
post merger
IPO in Malaysia
11 to 158 staff
10X Monthly Revenues
in 6 months.
Top 3 performing Groupon
countries in the world post
acquisition.

4. Angel Investments Mentor in 500 Startup’s Batch 5
As I started working with more founders,
It looks like scaling up a team was not easy.
Set up 500 Startups SE Asia

5. Post Series A
Now that expectations are
so high after I closed my
round, how do I get my team
to get even more fired up?
70% of my team joined in
the last 6 months. And I’m
hiring more. How do I make
sure they have the same
culture?
OK I’ve got a bunch of
senior hires joining my team
retreat. How do I build the
next phase of my company
culture with them?
Post $25M Series B
Post $4.5M Seed
Especially after you’ve raised some money!

6. Today, we’ll talk about some ideas and stories
on how to scale up your team!

7. Scale team culture for performance is hard.
@khailee
Fb.com/
khailee
khailee@500.co
khaileeng
Scale team culture for performance AND happiness?
Whole new story. Let’s talk more!