In order to stay fixed on our North Star, we must amplify and guard the light within each member of our team. Each of us is happiest when we are growing, doing meaningful work, and being justly compensated/recognized for it. We also must guard each of our individual light by taking time off, decreasing burnout, and establishing clear expectations for success.

Our team member principles help us strive to accelerate growth and stay fixed on our North Star. Our compensation principles, help us attract and keep the very best team members (high performers focused on growth) who also embrace our North Star.

We invite feedback to expand on these principles in a way that we row better together as a team. The details of how to achieve our goal will undoubtedly change over the coming years, but the principles will be constant.

Team Member Principles

Together, we strive to:

• First, serve our customers
• Hire the very best who align with the North Star
• Take care of our team - inside and outside of the office
• Take individual ownership
• Execute with high energy
• Hunger to learn with child-like curiosity
• Test everything! (A/B testing of assumptions is critical to decision making)
• Share more context and exercise less control (Art of Action)
• Seek the right solution over being right (Required reading for all leaders at Angel Studios: Leadership and Self-Deception)
• Insist on candor, with positive intent (there's an example in this presentation)
• Feel profoundly grateful that we get to earn a living while amplifying light