Pros
It's of course extremely difficult to build a $15b b2b company in a very competitive industry. But Applied Intuition has managed to do it. You have to give kudos to leadership (the CEO, CTO, and President in particular) and to the team for such an incredible feat. And the company is still cooking: I think Applied Intuition has the potential to be a $100b+ company. Another great thing about Applied is that throughout its history, leadership has been attentive to even-keeled feedback (complaining about encouraging likes on linkedin posts is not good feedback...): there are many surveys given for the purpose of sending feedback upstream. Just from looking at the books he's read on his website, it's clear the CEO is a thoughtful guy with a "philosopher" vibe. The CTO counter-balances the CEO well in many ways, and I think together they make a good team. The company is transparent, which means it's a great place to learn. I truly believe that Applied is one of the best places to work for future founders.
Cons
Applied Intuition has it's problems, but as mentioned above, I think the company does a good job of getting feedback and addressing the issues over time. One thing that could break the feedback loop is if the company starts to have too many "lieutenants" instead of people who can think and act for themselves, since that would prevent feedback or pushback from reaching the founders.
