Thomas initially joined having been highly recommended by my friend Tony - who tends to have a very high bar for talent. I can't remember Tony's exact words but they were something along the lines of "Thomas is a unicorn - someone who's simultaneously an excellent full-stack developer, and also being an excellent designer - he's probably in the top 0.1% of people you could hire" It goes without saying that all of the above was true - Thomas builds a damn good product. I could go into depth on that but I don't think that this alone captures why Thomas is so great - what maybe helps capture this is that he's also a brilliant musician, a very good writer, a good rock climber, makes beautiful furniture, and is probably great at so much more that I don't even know about! It's basically no accident that Thomas is a 'unicorn' - he's the epitome of an ever-learning, beginners mindset. If he doesn't understand something, he'll approach it with intense curiosity until he does, figure out what it means to do it as well as possible, and then persist with it until he actually does this. This means that he can probably basically learn anything at an incredible pace and probably - and I don't say this lightly - do anything. With Advisable, he applied this pursuit of brilliance to everything from our product's design, to our admin interface, to how he managed complex transitions, to creating documentation, to product management, to human management, to design workflows, to running meetings...and a lot more. This is why I truly believe - had Advisable scaled to a team of 10,000+ - if he wanted to - Thomas could've been a key member of the senior leadership, managing teams of teams of engineers and designers while also being a key strategic contributor at that scale. I say this not because he has experience doing this, but because I know he would've figured every element of it out. And I'm sure he would've also done this while living a great, well-rounded, happy life. Basically, he's probably now in the top 0.0001% of people you can hire.

Thomas initially joined having been highly recommended by my friend Tony - who tends to have a very high bar for talent. I can't remember Tony's exact words but they were something along the lines of "Thomas is a unicorn - someone who's simultaneously an excellent full-stack developer, and also being an excellent designer - he's probably in the top 0.1% of people you could hire" It goes without saying that all of the above was true - Thomas builds a damn good product. I could go into depth on that but I don't think that this alone captures why Thomas is so great - what maybe helps capture this is that he's also a brilliant musician, a very good writer, a good rock climber, makes beautiful furniture, and is probably great at so much more that I don't even know about! It's basically no accident that Thomas is a 'unicorn' - he's the epitome of an ever-learning, beginners mindset. If he doesn't understand something, he'll approach it with intense curiosity until he does, figure out what it means to do it as well as possible, and then persist with it until he actually does this. This means that he can probably basically learn anything at an incredible pace and probably - and I don't say this lightly - do anything. With Advisable, he applied this pursuit of brilliance to everything from our product's design, to our admin interface, to how he managed complex transitions, to creating documentation, to product management, to human management, to design workflows, to running meetings...and a lot more. This is why I truly believe - had Advisable scaled to a team of 10,000+ - if he wanted to - Thomas could've been a key member of the senior leadership, managing teams of teams of engineers and designers while also being a key strategic contributor at that scale. I say this not because he has experience doing this, but because I know he would've figured every element of it out. And I'm sure he would've also done this while living a great, well-rounded, happy life. Basically, he's probably now in the top 0.0001% of people you can hire.

Thomas initially joined having been highly recommended by my friend Tony - who tends to have a very high bar for talent. I can't remember Tony's exact words but they were something along the lines of "Thomas is a unicorn - someone who's simultaneously an excellent full-stack developer, and also being an excellent designer - he's probably in the top 0.1% of people you could hire" It goes without saying that all of the above was true - Thomas builds a damn good product. I could go into depth on that but I don't think that this alone captures why Thomas is so great - what maybe helps capture this is that he's also a brilliant musician, a very good writer, a good rock climber, makes beautiful furniture, and is probably great at so much more that I don't even know about! It's basically no accident that Thomas is a 'unicorn' - he's the epitome of an ever-learning, beginners mindset. If he doesn't understand something, he'll approach it with intense curiosity until he does, figure out what it means to do it as well as possible, and then persist with it until he actually does this. This means that he can probably basically learn anything at an incredible pace and probably - and I don't say this lightly - do anything. With Advisable, he applied this pursuit of brilliance to everything from our product's design, to our admin interface, to how he managed complex transitions, to creating documentation, to product management, to human management, to design workflows, to running meetings...and a lot more. This is why I truly believe - had Advisable scaled to a team of 10,000+ - if he wanted to - Thomas could've been a key member of the senior leadership, managing teams of teams of engineers and designers while also being a key strategic contributor at that scale. I say this not because he has experience doing this, but because I know he would've figured every element of it out. And I'm sure he would've also done this while living a great, well-rounded, happy life. Basically, he's probably now in the top 0.0001% of people you can hire.