Pros
OpenRent is: - A truly 'lean' startup. Not bloated by too much VC money or excessive hiring. OpenRent is massive now, well over a million users, and just handles a tonne of stuff all the time, and has a team-size of like, fifteen. Which is crazy. To scale that much but only scale the team that little. That's crazy. That's how startups are actually meant to be. There's a lot of stupid, bloated startups around right now. OpenRent is really not one of those. - Actually changing the UK for the better. Housing is one of the UK's biggest problems. Lots of companies claim to be solving that. I'd struggle to name many that are actually helping as much as OpenRent is. I feel proud about what we're doing. Not sure how many people at other startups feel that way. - Bootstrapped, until fairly recently, so profitable and sustainable. And growing really fast. That feels good, too. - Tiny team means massive personal impact. - Founders 'take chances' on 'unproven' hires, and they manage that well. Which means people have stuff to prove, and are given room to prove it. - 'Good' people - morally, and to mess around with. - Not part of the Old Street 'scene', which is a plus for me. But that might bother you. If you're an idiot.
Cons
When you explain to people what your job is, they might thing you're an estate agent. Which is like, the Ultimate Con.
