I’ve spent some time thinking about transparency in business in the past months. I ~am~ got very close to starting my own e-commerce company to play with some of these ideas (more on that later).
Here’s a list of companies that have helped shape my imagination in how transparency in business can look like:
- buffer.com: Their company value number 1 is “Default to transparency.”. Specifically, they excel at communicating their salary formula, sharing their board updates and have a revenue dashboard
- gitlab.com: One of their company values is “Transparency”. They write in exhaustive detail about their OKRs, their strategy and also how they go about strategizing and have an excellent hiring page.
- hellocode.com: This is a small software shop working on Exist, Larder and Changemap. They have a stats page which outlines their financial situation. On their blog, you can read their 2020 plans
- baremetrics.com: They demo their product with their own company metrics and they do that with an attitude. They have a list of “open startups” but not all of the companies listed here have a focus on transparency.
- friendly.is: Friendly is one of the startups I’ve come to know via Baremetrics, one of their company values is “Default to transparency.”. They keep their revenue dashboard, website analytics and their product backlog public.
Some more can be here:
- https://github.com/opencompany/awesome-open-company
- https://www.opencompany.org/directory/
And also see a post by Rev Dan Catt on how he approaches pricing his pen plotter art.