Kristin Geer is a toxic leader and has no business running a software company
Pros
The team members actually putting in the work care deeply about what they are doing and have built some great products despite toxic leadership
Cons
This is a simple story from a few years ago: Product leadership (not including the CEO) is presenting to the entire company about the next big project that is about to kick off. Everything going great, the CEO Kristin even pops champagne to hand out and celebrate the occasion. The team starts asking questions and discussing future plans and other features that could be useful. The product team starts talking about MVP vs not MVP features for the new app. Kristin has to ask what MVP means, upon finding out it stands for "minimum", she gives a 10 minute rant about how "if minimum is acceptable". She doesn't listen to any explanations about how it's a common planning technique while building software. She eventually starts yelling and crying before literally running out of the room only to be followed by her husband\co-owner while the team is just in shock. The fallout of the event completely derailed the project and it never got built while "don't say MVP" became a running joke amongst the staff. In another instance after a particularly grueling couple weeks of peak tennis season, multiple employees approached the CTO about Kristin's recent behavior and said they were done if something didn't change. The CTO had to threaten to quit to get her to back off and allow him to handle day to day interactions with employees
