Do shared values improve collaboration?

If you're going to share a role with someone and particularly in a role like this, it doesn't stop at 5:00 PM. It's not all consuming, but it is all encompassing. And it does touch a lot of aspects of our lives and our roles are completely broad reaching across the business. So having a joint view on the business, a joint vision for the business, what we're working towards, what we're trying to achieve and making sure to check in on that every so often as well, and to make sure that we're on the same page on that front, or maybe we want to tweak the vision because we have learned some new information or tweaked the longer term plans for the business, because we know more now than we knew yesterday or a week ago or a month ago or six months ago, which is always the case in startup. New information is coming in everyday, new understandings of the technology, new experimental results, things that will have a knock on effect for how we want to run the business.

But at the core, our values are aligned on what we're trying to do, what we're trying to build, the type of business we want to build.