Warrior Culture.

Five non-negotiables.

The operating principles that decide who joins, who stays, and how every decision gets made.

1. 1T01

   Ultra hardcore

   Kardashev is for the top 0.000001%. Our team exudes ultra high energy - energy is the #1 trait we look for in future recruits. If you are not prepared for a level of intensity greater than anything you've experienced before, then don't apply. Revolutionalizing industries isn't for the faint of heart. This is the kind of place that produces the people who will define the entire tech industry a decade from now — The next Larry Ellison. The next Elon Musk. The next Henry Ford.

2. 2T02

   Seek Pain

   Great people constantly make things difficult for themselves. At Kardashev, we push ourselves until it hurts. Growth does not happen in comfort.

   Every hour at Kardashev is optimized for power law outcomes: power law customers, power law products, power law features, and power law people. We do not spend an ounce of our time on silly corporate BS. Things like useless meetings are despised at Kardashev and high velocity decision-making is rewarded.

3. 3T03

   Be Extreme

   The success of an organization is defined by the first derivative of the vector sum of all humans in the organization. The largest vector sum of all the "vectors" in a company is achieved when the "vectors" are parallel and pointing in the same direction. We believe words like "balance" are random vectors used by mediocre people. We believe in the power of focus, paranoia, hustle, and hard work. Extreme people get extreme results and normal people get normal results. Be extreme.

4. 4T04

   Self-belief, risk-taking, and thinking big

   Unlike 99.9% of the companies on the planet, we don't “play to our core strengths” and settle on building incremental products, we create core strengths from nothing to build novel one-of-a-kind products in uncharted territories. We don't self-limit outselves. Self-limiting beliefs is the biggest crime one can commit against the gifts that God has given them. Believe that you can do the impossible and you will. We can do ANYTHING!

5. 5T05

   Emotionless Objective Thinking

   A surprising amount of people make decisions based on feelings or emotions. Kardashev is a place where the BEST ideas win - emotions are irrelevant. We value truth-seeking more than we value emotions.

   We are in the pursuit of greatness - not in pursuit of making people happy or protect random feelings.