I was asked recently by my HR, on what's my take on ownership mentality in Trust Wallet. Here's my response:
I’ll be honest, ownership and entrepreneurial spirit are rare these days. A precious commodity, honestly. Plenty of people claim them but very few actually understand what it means.
To me, having ownership is a pre-requisite of having an entrepreneurial spirit. All (good) entrepreneurs who embody this spirit have ownership. Giving up halfway and having no ownership is the antithesis of entrepreneurship. So let’s talk about ownership first.
So this is what ownership means to me.
It’s about taking something to the finish line even when there are obstacles. It's creative problem solving. Being resourceful. Working out how to get from point A to point B when nobody hands you the map.
Most people hit a wall, realise there's no SOP and no one to give them the answer, and they stop. To be clear, asking for help isn't the problem. That's part of the process. The difference is what you do when the answer doesn't exist yet.
Give two people a stick and a line. One sees a fishing rod. The other sees two objects that are not a fish, and starves.
There's a third group too: people who could figure it out but have no incentive because they’re not hungry, so they don't care. That isn't ownership either.
Proactive. Driven. Having the entrepreneurial spirit and vision to build their own solutions and own their outcomes. That's the whole thing, and it's what an entrepreneurial mindset actually looks like in a startup where the answers aren't clear yet.
In a lean, high output team like
@TrustWallet, this matters more than anywhere else. We ship quickly and regularly, often before everything feels certain. That only works when people own their outcomes and believe they can create impact in the organisation and in the web3 space.
If you read this and recognised yourself, come join us.