Winning & Culture

Two years after launching our corporate card, we crossed $150 million annualized revenue with 45 people total, and 15 engineers. Most companies talk about talent density, ownership, and speed, but very few actually live inside a culture where those things compound. At Slash, two things make this possible: who we hire, and the culture that’s emerged.

How we hire

When we hire, we’re looking for engineers who were previously technical founders, or have the potential to become one. Engineers drive the initiatives they work on and own outcomes end-to-end. We think holistically, from the tiny details like code quality and design patterns, to critically asking high-level questions such as “are we building the right thing?” At the limit, it’s about making decisions from code → product → business in ambiguous environments and uncovering the answers over time.

Why join a company if you could potentially found one on your own? In the case you feel a burning desire to start one now over everything else you could possibly do, you absolutely should. However, the opportunity cost is incredibly high. Most startups fail, some hit very middling outcomes, and only a select few each year build real lasting businesses. The reason is simple — you can’t build great things at scale on your own, and most people haven’t worked with truly great teams. We have, and that’s why we’re winning.

Winning & Culture

Today, we’re able to launch new fintech products in new domains in a matter of weeks with great unit economics that would traditionally take startups years to build the financial infrastructure for. Being a founder on the team means you get to launch and own products that can become 100M businesses on their own, and you get to build these products alongside peers who are doing the same thing with you.

As an example, Slash’s global banking product, Global USD, has primarily been spearheaded by one engineer, Arman. In just a year, we’ve scaled crypto offramp volume to a billion dollars annualized, and have accrued millions in stablecoin deposits. By 2026, we’ll continue growing our stablecoin product to serve a broader international customer base, and become one of the largest crypto businesses in the world.

This outcome isn’t an accident, it’s deeply rooted in who we are. I started coding at thirteen because the idea that you could type something into a computer and make something real felt magical. In high school and college, that turned into staying up until 4am building projects with friends because there was nothing else I’d rather be doing. That kind of cycle — shipping code, iterating until it works, learning incredibly fast, while having fun is the foundation to how we work today.

Jason, who built Wrath, one of the most successful sneaker reselling bots, spent over two years on his own trying to build one until things finally clicked for him at 16. When you put yourself in a position where you need to solve every detail or nothing works, you learn that you can truly solve any problem if you give it enough time. That’s a mindset that the team carries with us.

Come join us

Our culture has now become a compounding flywheel — when you’re surrounded by peers who all really love building, are extremely ambitious and want to win, the energy becomes infectious. Those who haven’t been founders before come in and learn how to become one. Those who’ve started things in the past come in and join an environment where their work is amplified by those around them.

Over the next decade, we’re looking for people who think like us to join us. As we grow, we're not just scaling revenue, we're compounding a culture of founders who can create massive businesses together.