MotionMO

Motion

Motion’s mission is to empower everyone to do their best work by automatically optimizing their schedule. By constantly monitoring and reorganizing people's to-do list and calendar, we help professionals make time for their highest priority tasks, reduce the stress of being overwhelmed by meetings, and make sure deadlines are never missed.

About Motion

At Motion, we're building the new way for professionals to manage their time. By constantly monitoring and reorganizing their to-do list and calendar, we help professionals make time for their highest priority tasks while never missing any deadlines.

Where is Motion located?

Motion is officially based in San Francisco, but most of the team is working remotely across the US and Canada.

How does Motion make money?

We currently charge users a subscription around $30/month. We already have 10,000+ paying users from world class companies!

Is Motion building an innovative product?

Yes! Customers frequently tell us that Motion has changed their lives and they love our product. Read more about what customers have to say about us here: https://twitter.com/usemotion

How big is the market?

There are many large, billion-dollar companies in the productivity space: e.g. Asana, Monday.com, ClickUp, Notion. We believe Motion has the potential to become as large as these companies, or even larger.

It's a crowded space - how will Motion beat the competition?

  • Our strongest competitive advantage is that we move extremely quickly. We aim to release new significant features every week. We can accomplish things in weeks that it takes our competitors months or years to do.

  • We learn extremely quickly. We're great at constantly talking to users and analyzing user metrics. We can quickly figure out how to improve the product and what new solutions to build. On the business side, we figure out sales and marketing tactics extremely fast and have a world-class growth operation.

  • We are hungry for success and have an extremely strong sense of urgency. We are not content to just build a small business. We constantly ask ourselves what specifically we are doing to turn Motion into a billion-dollar company. We are always trying to push the envelope rather than be too comfortable.

  • We like to take risks. We view risk taking as potential opportunities for extreme growth. We don't let fear hold us back.

  • We communicate directly and effectively. We don't have long meetings that go nowhere; meetings can be just a few minutes long and everyone gets on the same page. Everyone holds themselves accountable - when we say we will do something, we get it done without anyone else checking in on us. We can disagree while committing.

How much money have you raised?

We have raised 13 million of dollars from top-tier investors, most recently our Series A. You can read about our latest funding here: https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/19/2393012/. Motion was in the Y Combinator Winter 2020 class.

What are work hours like at Motion?

We are looking for ambitious people who want to work hard and accomplish something great. Our team usually work 50 hours a week, occasionally a bit longer around major product releases. The founders and senior managers usually work 70+ hours a week. We all constantly challenge ourselves to do our best work and make the company succeed. Every employee has a huge amount of impact. You should join Motion if you want to collaborate with an ambitious and talented team in a no-BS environment.

Our company culture, or why you may or may not be excited about joining us:

  • Take ownership and be accountable

    • We can rely on each member of the team to get their work done. When we say we'll do something - we get it done without anyone checking in on us. This way, we can establish a culture of trust and not micromanage each other. When something takes longer than expected and we think we'll miss the target, we communicate that as early as possible with the rest of the team and figure out a solution. There should never be a scenario where we only find out after a task's due date that it wasn't completed.

  • Straightforward communication

    • We communicate in a direct manner. If there is something you disagree with or are unhappy about, let the team know. We don’t tolerate passive-aggressiveness or company politics. When one of us makes a mistake, it should go: 1) admit we made a mistake 2) agree on a solution to prevent it from happening again 3) move on. A lot of times, this process should only take a few minutes.

  • Disagree and commit

    • We can disagree and commit. Not all of our ideas will be implemented, and sometimes the group will decide to do something one of us disagrees with. Even if we disagree with the decision, we commit to getting it done. It's counterproductive to keep arguing and slow down implementation efforts; better to get it done quickly and see if it actually works instead of speculating otherwise.

  • Raw hours make a difference

    • Working too many hours doesn't guarantee success; but not working hard enough will guarantee failure. We expect everyone to put in their sincere best effort, but we generally don't expect you to work late evenings or on weekends. We are careful to avoid burn out, but we also don't want to sugarcoat the fact that raw hours can make a huge difference in a startup.

  • Take risks

    • We are not afraid of taking risks. We should not over-index on failures. A lot of features we build and strategies we try will fail - that is expected. A lot of times, it was the right thing to do with the available information, and it's important to realize when that's the case. We should be maximizing the expected value of our actions, not minimizing the number of failures.

    • Motion is far from being a perfect product today, so we need to keep iterating. With any change in the product direction, there will be some unhappy users. We recognize we can't make everyone happy, and are not afraid to lose a few users if it means significantly improving our product and expanding our user base.

  • Operational excellence and attention to detail

    • We are a small team with a user base and revenue that are exploding. Every mistake we make has a direct revenue impact. Operational excellence for a company at our stage means having a well-thought procedure for every operational task we perform, including QA, merging code, releasing, support, email campaigns, sales process, and many more. It covers all areas of the business and applies to everyone. Note that operational excellence is different from bureaucracy, which we don’t tolerate here at Motion.

    • Attention to detail is a state of mind that can be learned. It doesn’t come naturally, and often even the brightest people lack attention to detail. Examples of it include “always taking that extra time to think through edge cases and consequences”, “not making fat-finger mistakes,” “always be double-checking your work”…etc. It’s really a habit instead of a skill and requires a mentality shift to master. The ROI of having attention to detail is massive: spending that extra few seconds or minutes to “think-through everything” could save you from losing many hours and thousands in revenue.

  • Making tradeoffs

    • We often have to sacrifice quality for speed to validate new ideas. It is important to know the balance between the two and to find good tradeoffs. For new ideas, we want to quickly test a hypothesis, instead of building the most robust feature that no one wants and having to discard all the code anyways. Once a hypothesis has been validated, we can make it more robust. As the company matures, this tradeoff will need to adapt with the stage of the company.

  • Be versatile and open to new ideas

    • We are an early-stage startup. Our product, roadmap, strategy, and goals constantly change. We should not be scared of a rapidly changing work environment. Things may feel unstable, or even desperate, at times. We believe we'll overcome the challenges (as we have each time in the past), but there will be times when things can get really, really tough.

    • We encounter a lot of hard problems, most of which don't have obvious answers. We aren't constrained to any particular solution, and sometimes the best solution may sound crazy at first. We want an environment where every member of the team feels excited sharing new ideas, which will be respected and challenged by others.

  • Look for opportunities to grow

    • We are looking for team members who aren't just checking off tasks, but are thinking about how to push the business forward and increase their impact. We want you to look for new opportunities that we aren't taking advantage of, and go for it!

Employee benefits

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Healthcare benefits

Medical, dental, and vision health insurance.

Equity benefits

Every employee gets equity, so you are rewarded for your best work.

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Motion

Company size

11-50

Founded in

2019

Chief executive officer

Harry Qi

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