The Endless engineering team’s journey and transition from for-profit to nonprofit.
Endless previously operated as the for-profit entity Endless Mobile for around 7 years, before completing the transition to the nonprofit Endless OS Foundation in April 2020.
This transition did not involve a change of mission – even as a for-profit we were built around the social impact goals of empowering the world through technology – but the strategy and the approach to making our mark changed significantly.
It took us a good amount of head-scratching and going back to the drawing board to really grasp what it means to run a streamlined nonprofit organisation, especially while carrying around years of history from a different structure. I’d like to share some of the challenges faced by our engineering team during this transition, and show how we have adapted for our new organisational shape.
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