Open: Buffer’s Transparency Dashboard
Since 2013, we’ve been open with Buffer’s finances and our team’s salaries, among many other metrics. We share openly because we believe in the power of transparency to build trust, hold us accountable to a high standard, and push our industry forward. This is a dashboard for anyone to see how we’re building Buffer.
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Read moreA timeline of transparency at Buffer
Here's an overview of the transparency timeline at Buffer, as you saw above, much of the company is transparent. Here's more of the story of when that happened and how it came about.

The first version of Buffer, the product, was launched November 30th, 2010. The launch appeared on Hacker News as a part of the November Startup Sprint.

In early 2011, our co-founder CEO, Joel Gascoigne, started publicly sharing several milestones around Buffer users. The first example was reaching 500 signups.

At the end of 2011, we raised $450,000 and shared the names of the 19 investors and how we met them.
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In February 2013, Joel emailed the team to share the first iteration of our salary formula along with sharing the whole team's salaries transparently internally.

In March 2013, our equity formula was made transparent internally as well.

In May, we published the exact fundraising deck used in the 2012 seed round
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In September, we shared our first investor's update publicly.
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In October Buffer was hacked, and we shared our live blog with updates on the situation publicly.
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In December, we were ready to share salaries externally, and we published the spreadsheet with our salaries.
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Our equity formula, which was made internally transparent in 2013, was made externally transparent in April of 2014.
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In the same month, we added a public revenue dashboard with real-time revenue numbers.
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In October, we raised a transparent Series A round where we shared our valuation term sheet.
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In December, we shared a pricing breakdown of exactly where your money goes if you were paying $10 for Buffer.
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We shared our first diversity dashboard in June, along with our full diversity stats.
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In November, we made an update to iterate on our salary formula.
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We released the first version of our salary calculator, which anyone could use to see what they would get paid if they worked at Buffer.
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In December, we acquired Respondly and shared as much of the process transparently as we were able to.
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In April, we launched a public Trello board with our product roadmap that is still operational and up to date.
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In June, we had a cash-flow crisis resulting in several financial changes at Buffer, including a round of lay offs.
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In February, our COO and CTO decided to leave Buffer. We shared more about this change and the vision for the future of Buffer.
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In April, we shared Buffer's first Equal Pay report, a report that detailed what men and women earned at Buffer.
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In December, we had our first profit share of $300,000 and charitable donation of $50,000.
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In August, we decided to spend $3.3 Million buying out our VC investors as it was clear that Buffer had become less of a fit for VC funding.
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In the same month, we shared our company budget and operating expenses transparently.
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In June, after two years of successful profit sharing, we shared our formula for profit sharing and charitable contributions.
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In April, we shared every team communication we had around COVID-19.
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We moved our transparent salaries from a spreadsheet to a table more prominently displayed on our website and added in a clear depiction of our salary formula and compensation philosophy.
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