Unlocking Creative Genius: Asana's Hackathons Cater to All Energies with Asana's CEO

Name: Unlocking Creative Genius: Asana's Hackathons Cater to All Energies with Asana's CEO
Uploaded: 2023-11-14T15:15:00+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Jason M. Lemkin
Description: Asana runs hackathons in different formats: some all-night for employees who want that intensity, but most happen during business hours or span multiple…

14 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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Asana runs hackathons in different formats: some all-night for employees who want that intensity, but most happen during business hours or span multiple days. The CEO says overnight events build camaraderie but shouldn't be default, since they hurt productivity and exclude people with families.

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And for our hackathons, we've been pretty thoughtful about this. And yeah, the, you know, younger employees at Asana, they want to stay up all night and do that. So, you know, once a year we'll try and have a hackathon that's more oriented around that. But other times during the year, we'll have a hackathon that takes place during the day or maybe across multiple, multiple days to give people, you know, a chance to participate in that creative process who can't necessarily stay up all night. Maybe they, you know, maybe they have a family or maybe they just get tired at night. And so really creating that environment for multiple people, but it's not really an either-or thing for me. You can still have those intense experiences where you bond, but they just shouldn't be the norm. You know, we want to have a great environment, but again, it's in service of optimal productivity. So if you're keeping people till 8:30 or 9:00, yeah, I would argue that's actually shooting yourself in the foot, even though you're getting more face time.