Performance Reviews Are Broken

Token CEO

Lemonada Media

Business, Management

4.2 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of WORK, Erika talks with Max Shaw, founder of Windmill, about what happens when you actually try to fix work with software. They get into performance reviews, why no one knows what anyone does anymore, and how AI can help the way we collaborate. It’s a conversation about systems, strategy, and the mess between productivity and performance.

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:02.0	All right, welcome back to work. This is our podcast where we talk about work. We have a special guest today. We have Max Shaw with us. We have a lot of laughs, but what we really talk about is Max's new company, which is called Windmill. Max and his partner in crime
0:23.7	Mark were the founders of GIFGIF, which is a barstool lore, meme. I don't even know how to
0:31.2	describe it, meme brand. And now they've created a real company, which is, I think, going to
0:36.7	revolutionize HR, which is something
0:38.9	that certainly could be revolutionized.
0:40.4	So we have a great conversation.
0:42.2	I'm excited for you to hear it.
0:43.6	We talk about performance reviews.
0:45.9	We talk about Wendy, which is their Slack application.
0:49.8	And we essentially talk about why, when you're in a company
0:53.5	or in a job, you spend all this time
0:56.2	administrating a whole bunch of stuff that doesn't add a lot of value and how AI and technology
1:02.0	can help streamline that for people and also for companies at large. So we're excited to have
1:07.3	Max and I think we'll just hand it over there.
1:22.1	We have Max here with us today. Hi, Max.
1:24.3	What's your astrological sign?
1:25.5	I have no idea.
1:26.7	Well, what's your birthday?
1:27.8	December 30th. No, I's your birthday? December 30th.
1:29.0	December 30th.
1:31.7	No, I think he's a Sagittarius.
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