Two is a Couple, Three is a Crowd?

When we first launched WooThemes, it was only the 3 co-founders on the WooTeam, which meant that most decisions could happen pretty quickly, efficiently and without having to involve a massive team with varying opinions. 3 decision makers also seems to be a perfect situation in that no decisions will be caught up in a “draw”.

We have however never enforced a 2 vs 1 situation that is sometimes just natural when 3 individuals have to make a decision. Instead we’ve preferred to spend more time discussing our decisions and whilst it would be impossible for all 3 of us to be similarly passionate about each decision, we at least want everyone to feel comfortable with the suggested decision(s).

There thus is no majority vote at WooThemes and we’ve never used the 2 vs 1 situation to force a decision through. This just isn’t the way we do business.

It’s About the Relationship

One thing that has always been pretty obvious to us, is that our relationship with each other – both as co-founders and friends – is paramount to the success of WooThemes. We’re not the most talented group of co-founders you’ll find online, but we’ve worked really hard and we’ve worked together (two very important characteristics we believe).

A result of our great relationship has been that our combined personalities have become the voice, image & personality of WooThemes, which means that our business is simply an extension of us. By making sure that our relationship is our most important asset – and not compromising on those by forcing a 2 vs 1 vote down someone’s throat – we’ve built a flourishing business which we absolutely love.

You’d think that after working together for 3+ years now, there’d be a few fights at least, yet we’ve quite easily navigated our way through potentially sticky situations by not invoking majority voting. Yes – sometimes this means discussions are drawn-out and decisions take a little while longer to make, but it also means we’re protecting our biggest asset: the team & our relationship.