Short excerpt from a YouTube talk (hosted by Jason M. Lemkin) featuring Cloudflare's CRO discussing the importance of celebrating major company achievements (“big W wins”). The speaker emphasizes company-wide celebrations rather than individual recognition and recounts buying a pinball machine as a company heritage moment chosen over alternatives like kombucha.
And the next is around celebrate the wins. Here it's like celebrate the big W wins. Everybody will talk about celebrate little wins. I think the big W's are important but what I will talk about is celebrate the big wins. In the beginning, in this phase, we celebrated the wins not with a person. It wasn't about that person. It wasn't even about that team. Was about the whole company. We crossed over a threshold and delivered X million or, or finished a project. We actually bought a pinball machine for the company and in hindsight, like you weren't like that. Sure that was a good idea. Somebody was like let's get kombucha. And then somebody else said I don't want to bring uncultured processed drinks to the organization. Get people sick. Like let's do a pinball machine. So we did a pinball machine and that is a part of our heritage and it's a reflection of celebrating the wins.
