Alan built a first-class engineering team and the credit goes mainly to Charles. He did it by getting rid of old managerial principles and by giving ownership & responsibility to his team. They work as a network of individual contributors whose unique goal is to build the best tech to support Alan’s awesome mission: Simplifying health insurance for all of us.

1. Charles Gorintin
@gorintic // @alan_assurance

2. Alan mission

3. Started by building the best health insurance
company

4. 23M€
Annual Recurring Revenue
2200+
Companies have chosen Alan as their health insurance
28 000+ insured people
covered by Alan today
Main figures
🏡

5. Team
Building the best team in France with international profiles is our #1 Priority
5
Founders: Jean-Charles Samuelian (serial entrepreneur in complex markets) and Charles Gorintin (FB/Twitter)
Engineering & Data Science: 17 - Lead Engineer @ Square, Science & Tech Lead @ UCSF, Twitter, Game Director @ Pretty Simple, Lead
Engineer @ BlablaCar, Senior DS @ OpenDoor, Mixpanel, Typeform...
Design: 3 - Lead UX/UI @ Withings, Lead Designer @ Dailymotion, Product Lead Designer @ BlablaCar
Product: 3 - PM @ FB, Senior PM @ Criteo
Growth, Communication & Content: 5 - VP Growth Spring, Head of Partnerships @ KissKissBankBank, Lead Growth @ Homie, ...
Sales & Sales Strategy: 12 - Countries Manager @ Hotel Tonight, Regional Manager @ MonDocteur, Associate Partner @ McKinsey,
EMEA Senior Sales @ JobTeaser, Senior Brand Manager @ L’Oreal, ...
Insurance Products & Ops: 4 - Head of Technical Products @ Generali, COO @ Mercer, Deputy Director @ CRE, Project Lead @ Devialet
Finance, Admin and Office Mngmt: 3 - ACPR/IGF, CEO @ WattStrat, ...
User Care Experts: 12 - WOW @ Captain Train, Founder @ Petite Question, ...
Talent: 2 - People Success Management @ Buffer, ...

6. 6
It’s all about execution

7. Disclaimer

8. Source: Blitzscaling

9. Why build a top team

10. Starting from scratch

11. Creativity under constraints

12. Values

13. 1. Transparency

14. 2. Ownership

15. 3. Trust

16. How (the actionable bits)

17. Ownership: Hierarchy

18. Ownership: Decision-making

19. Transparency: Written culture

20. Trust: Autonomy

21. Trust: Bus Factor
Source:
https://adamprescott.net/2012/12/04/lean-development-teams/

22. Trust: Hiring

23. Trust: Hiring process

24. Trust: Freedom Pledge

25. Ownership: Fullstack

26. Trust: Pull Requests, Version
Control

27. Trust: Testing

28. Trust: Accountability

29. Transparency: 1-1s, reviews,
Radical Candor

30. Transparency: retrospectives

31. Transparency: Salary

32. Transparency: Equity

33. Last tip: Read
Short reading list:
- Reinventing organizations
- High Growth Handbook
- The Hard Thing about Hard Things
- Blitzscaling
- High Output Management
- Radical Candor
- Crucial Conversations
- The Great Game of Business

34. Questions?
@gorintic // @alan_assurance