THE CONSCIOUS BLOG

Conscious Culture founding company Bolt recently announced that it is launching a new program that allows employees to exercise their stock options early, before the traditional one year vesting schedule. Additionally, Bolt will provide tangible help for employees in the form of interest-free loans, making early exercise possible for anyone. A Conscious Culture works to honor both high quality execution and people, with the belief that work improves when we prioritize people in company culture.

Thinking like a founder is different than thinking like an employee. Whether they want to or not, a founder has some part of their identity wrapped up in the company. They feel praise and blame of the company more acutely; it’s on their minds all the time, even when they’d rather it not be. And they feel a spirited commitment to improving the product and growing the company—in ways that can fire up an entire team.