At Cord, we love building killer collaboration. We love software and we love software that feels human and real-time. Our UI components, client-side SDK, and server-side APIs enable software teams to create amazing real-time experiences within their existing app.

Our team is super diverse mixture of ex-big-tech folks with years of experience building real-time software and folks fresh out of coding bootcamps who are just finding their foothold in the industry. We come from many countries, cultures, and religious backgrounds. We don't hire based on years of experience. We hire for people with the fire to build very useful things for other software teams.

The most memorable one is our standing team meeting called MYD. MYD stands for Murder Your Darlings. Good teams celebrate their successes, but we believe great teams own their shortcomings, too. So, periodically we look at our own work and talk about what isn't working. We talk about where we've done things wrong. Wasted time.

From the CTO to the newest intern on the team, we encourage people to step up and Say The Thing™. Own where you could have been better. Like the quote says, "*Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it — whole-heartedly — and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings."
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It's not all serious business. We do weekly team-wide shoutouts when great work gets shipped. And we do regular team off-sites like graffiti lessons, pasta making, and other activities to bring the team together away from the hard-scrabble of being a startup.

One of our most interesting side projects has been the work Tom, our lead designer, did to create outstanding Figma templates for the Cord UI component library. With this work, we've enabled designers and the developers they work with to have the same set of tools to work with.