THE THIRST PLAYBOOK
Thirst’ s internal playbook reads like a checklist of the advice its platform sells. The company runs half-day Fridays yearround, enforces a no-contact policy outside working hours, hands employees equity through an EMI share option scheme and stages annual hack days to give developers licence to experiment. Fred Thompson describes the management approach as trust without micromanagement, on the logic that a learning company cannot preach engagement it does not practise.