How Bonus.ly is helping companies show recognition to employees

Raphael Crawford-Marks, Bonusly, B2B, Customer Acquisition, SaaS (software as a service)

Today’s guest helps entrepreneurs like me stop being ungrateful.

Raphael Crawford-Marks is the cofounder of Bonusly, a platform for employee recognition via a peer-to-peer microbonuses and rewards.

I invited him here to talk about how I can improve in recognizing my team and how he built up this company from what he says was a “crappy” product.

Raphael Crawford-Marks

Bonusly

Raphael Crawford-Marks is the cofounder of Bonusly, a platform for employee recognition via a peer-to-peer microbonuses and rewards.

Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview successful entrepreneurs, especially in the tech space, about how they built their businesses and I do it for an audience of real entrepreneurs who want to understand how these entrepreneurs—there’s a lot of entrepreneurs—they want to learn from my interviewees so they can build better businesses.

I’ll be honest with you guys. I’m starting this interview 17 minutes late because we had a challenge with the team. Our team weekly call ran a little bit over and partly ran over because our new COO said, “We should probably take a little bit of time to celebrate what we’re doing right before we talk about how we can improve this process.” I said, “Yeah, I guess we should.” She says, “I’m not telling you to spend the call doing it, but if we only take 30 seconds to celebrate, to throw a little bit of confetti in the...

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