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A company built on a popular GitHub project DockerSlim describes concrete practices that worked: meet users on Twitch, Discord, Slack and blogs; hire contributors who already submit pull requests; use an employer‑of‑record (Deel) to hire across 150+ countries and staff across 15 time zones; codify mission, principles and a code of conduct; prioritize investor partners who explicitly back open source; and operationalize empathy to create safety and retain contributors. The result: a product‑centric roadmap driven by contributors and a distributed hiring pipeline.

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2. 1:00Welcome
3. 1:30Who am I
4. 2:42Core Cultural Strategies
5. 16:23Authenticity

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