
The story of the man who’s flattening the world of corporate hierarchies
By Aimee Groth - QZ
Brian Robertson comparing a multi-celled organism to the organization of a company. Aimee Groth
At age six, Brian Robertson taught himself to code. Throughout his childhood, he devoted the equivalent of a full-time job to coding. By age 13, he started a small business teaching programming on an early online network.
“Eventually the network staff found out their customers really liked the online course offering, and they created a formal program and hired me to teach programming in it a few hours per week,” he says. “They never found out I was 13.”
Now, as the co-founder of management consultancy HolacracyOne, Robertson, 35, advises companies...