A version of this story first published in Dallas Innovates—The Tech Talent Issue.
Marnie Robbins, director of people and culture for Koddi, says it’s the company’s core value of inquisitiveness that most contributes to innovation. She describes a new engineer who, a few months after starting with the company, spoke up about a particular report that he thought could be run faster than was being done. The changes the engineer suggested resulted in a reporting time of days being reduced to minutes.
George Popstefanov, CEO and Founder, Koddi [Photo: Erin Gilliatt]
“So that was pretty amazing. And it wasn’t because it was something that the business asked him to do. It was because it was something that he acknowledged that he wanted to do,” Robbins says. “That’s what we’re built on—the being curious and leaning into solving problems, or growing our clients and ourselves for that matter. It’s what has made us successful and kind of put us into this high-growth trajectory.”
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Koddi is a cloud provider of marketing technology for travel brands, and its partners leverage the Koddi platform and its fully automated and customizable reporting features to manage marketing investment for hundreds of thousands of hotel properties globally.
Headquartered in Fort Worth, it has offices in New York, Ann Arbor, Austin, the San Francisco Area, and Düsseldorf.
The company’s open work spaces reflect the its flat hierarchy that features few bosses and an open-door policy for managers. Koddi offers complimentary healthy snacks, not to mention an office “kegerator” with local craft beer on tap.
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A company’s space can be a reflection of its culture. Here’s a look behind the scenes at the company’s Fort Worth headquarters. Photos are by Erin Gilliatt.
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