I've worked at several corporations and many startups. All of them were committed to quality teams. They all used to say that people are the most important asset and that they have a unique ones. It's true that all those teams were very good in terms of people. Maybe I was just lucky, but I'm beginning to think that good people are not as rare as they seem. That sounds like a lot of blasphemy. I'm sure some of you have a completely different experience and have worked with a lot of jerks. A good team is definitely not a given and is a very important ingredient.

I tend to tolerate other shortcomings because of it. I've often worked on projects that aren't that useful, but the team was just too good to leave. I enjoyed spending time with those people. Going to work elsewhere was a big risk for me. I was worried that I would lose friends and I might not be as lucky with people at another company.

Two years ago, I started working for Trezor. At the beginning I found people quite aloof, I often had respect for them. In fact, even to this day, I'm still quite ashamed of some of my colleagues. Nevertheless, I managed to form a lot of great friendships. At the same time, I stay in touch with some of the people from before. And I try to lure the best ones to join us.

But most of all, now I’m working on something that really matters. I look forward to every new product we bring to market. We're creating tools that I use every day myself and I'm happy to recommend them to anyone. And that's an incredibly good feeling. I didn't even know I was missing that feeling before.

To give you a nudge. If you're worried that there aren't great people anywhere else, that's not true. There are great people at Trezor, and you can work on truly world-class tools that simultaneously make the world better before your eyes.