Coinbase 24hr Internal Hackathon: No Sleep ‘Til Bitcoin

By Nick Tomaino Coinbase HQ was buzzing with energy and creativity last week as we launched our first ever 24-hour internal hackathon, No Sleep ‘Til Bitcoin.

We’re big believers in hackathons; many members of our team are hackathon veterans, and we recently launched BitHack v2, an external online hackathon which is currently in progress. However, we’d never run one internally. Would it make sense to launch an internal hackathon when everyone was already busy with other projects? Would people want to pause their existing projects to feverishly work through the night?

Coinbase strives to entrust team members with a high level of autonomy, and …read more

Source:: http://blog.coinbase.com/2015/05/27/no-sleep-til-bitcoin/