Kickdrum

Kickdrum is a team of enterprise-grade strategists, architects, and builders that partner with technology investors and operating executives to defend and enhance businesses. Our value-focused solutions are investment-driven. We are experts in optimizing performance, cost, resilience, and time to market. We have assessed and advised private equity firms in over $9B in transaction value since 2018.

Here are a few characteristics that define us:

- We are a bunch of talented techies grounded in reality.
- We believe and practice collaboration, quality, and continuous learning.
- We strive to create or increase business value for our customers in all that we do.
- Nothing gets us going like a challenging technical or business problem.
- We have a flat hierarchy and are not big on processes and titles.
- We expect our employees to be responsible and apply sound judgment with our customers' information and products.
- Our engineers strive to become entrepreneurs and technology leaders.
- We hire and work only with the best.

Mission: Value-creation engineers.

Our 10 Leadership Values:

1 - Take ownership - If you see something that needs to be fixed, take responsibility and fix it. Do not wait to be told what to do.
2 - Learn and be curious - Believe every interaction is a learning opportunity. Look for why something works and what other solutions are possible. Always share your learnings with others.
3 - Act with integrity - Do the right thing 100% of the time. Integrity always trumps profit.
4 - Put customers first - Customers are at the center of our universe. Focus on delivering business value.
5 - Show grit and perseverance - Strive to "get comfortable with being uncomfortable".
6 - Think big - Apply enterprise-grade thinking to every size problem. Make it work for every situation.
7 - Find bias for action - Work on the most valuable thing you could be doing. Value solutions over problems.
8 - Show empathy - Show appreciation and gratitude often. Let others save face, even if they are wrong.
9 - Be open to criticism - Feedback is critical to getting better. Give it constructively and accept it gracefully.
10 - Commit to lead every day - Demonstrate the leadership values at work every single day.