Our principles are the foundation upon which we build Olympus, our culture, and our products.
These principles represent fundamental values that guide our daily decisions, shape our approach to challenges, and define who we are as an organization.
They reflect our vision of creating a work environment that not only produces results we are proud of but also promotes the care and growth of each team member's personal and professional sides.
This is a living document and is always evolving as we change and mature as a team.
List of Principles:
We must use technology to promote fraternity and freedom.
Olympus is an ecosystem of growth and mutual aid among team members.
Our vision is to create a sustainable system capable of ideation, development, launch, scaling, and maintenance of multiple digital-based products.
What do we need to get there?
Financial resources to sustain the development of non-profitable tests (i.e., cash to withstand failures).
Technology that reduces the time of our feedback cycle (time between ideation, development, and market response).
Methodology that allows us to have an objective project selection and validation process and improves its accuracy rate over time (as time passes, we improve our product success rate).
Manage resources using the "Barbell" strategy. On one side, we have high-risk products with a low chance of success but potentially significant returns. On the other end, we have service provision, which offers low risk and a high chance of success but with more modest rewards.
In this way, we are always operating on one side by offering high-value-added services, and on the other, we are testing scalable products.
All solutions we create must follow a win-win structure, where everyone involved benefits.
We value: ethics, organization, processes, and originality. This translates to:
Never breaching any kind of contract, whether verbal, written, or any agreement.
Truth and transparency prevail in all company relationships.
The quality of our process defines the quality of our deliveries - the higher the quality of our process, the higher the quality of our deliveries, and the more flexibility we have in defining our scope of work.
Originality and creativity are gifts that we return to the world. Our work is one of the ways we materialize this.
We must seek to diversify our sources of income in a way that cultivates our freedom of decision.
We should favor participation in niches aligned with our verticals/interests (business, technology, health, fitness, quality of life, and education).
We will seek to see the truth in all opportunities, evaluate calmly, attentively, and compassionately for all involved in the context. Patience and clear perception go hand in hand.
We must avoid illusions about the difficulty of projects. Ideas tend to seem simple when we are planning, and as we approach execution, their complexity increases.
Our products should be structured in a way that we have clear tools/metrics to evaluate the success or failure of a product.
Our deliveries must be minimal and fast to validate our hypotheses, deliver value, learn, and test again as quickly as possible.
We are a company that will always allow remote work and will be organized to facilitate this, so our processes and organization need to reflect this.
We should only hire/increase the team when it is a fundamental necessity and the context is appropriate. Avoid inflating the company and seek a lean structure that values each individual adequately.
For every new hire, we should seek to develop a situation that allows freedom and growth for the hire.
Before embracing any new project or functionality, we must understand well everything that can go wrong and be at peace with it. We should also evaluate if it aligns with our principles.
We should select projects of high added value. This means it is better to close the right projects than to try to adjust our process to serve the client. Thus, we can focus on delivering quality instead of spending time on bureaucracy and process adjustments instead of creation.
Always ask: What are the consequences if we are wrong?
Attention to detail is key. We should not be trapped by perfectionism that prevents us from moving forward. But carefully tending to every aspect of the solution is part of what we believe in.
Our process must be absolute - this will guide our interaction with clients, suppliers, and partners, ensuring that their possible lack of process does not interfere with ours.
We should work at our own pace, preserving calm and protecting our focus to avoid disrupting our flow based on external pressures.
Each new project should have the capacity to improve the quality and value of our future deliveries.
Regardless of projects, products, and partners, we must always be attentive and take care of the mindset and health of all team members.
We should practice moments of relaxation and connection among the team - this will help mitigate the impact of stress throughout the projects.
