Share the good and the bad. Communicate in the same way
“I told you before that I should... You see! That’s why the customer doesn’t pay now!” Such words are meaningless in PicSee, because we are a whole, and it doesn't matter who is right. The point is to do things well. If the result is not as expected, we will learn and improve together. No one here wants to mess things up. When our goals are the same, we can see farther, communicate and understand each other more with empathy.
Have the courage to change, build dreams and be realistic
Because we grow and improve, it's too limiting to measure our current selves against plans we made in the past. We believe that being adaptable to change demonstrates greater capability than rigidly adhering to those old plans. We strive to become better, aiming to improve every day and move closer to our dreams!
Happy and healthy, with a balanced mind and body
“You think I'm working, but I'm actually doing fun things; you think I'm doing fun things, but I'm actually working!” We are here because we feel happy to work with this group of people. We can have trash talk, or be optimistic pessimists, or we can talk freely about our pets, neighbors, or all kinds of new attempts.
Story
PicSee Inc., a British Virgin Islands merchant, was founded by Wei Chu-Hsiang and Wu Cheng-Ho in November 2016, which has "PicSee Inc.", a Taiwan subsidiary responsible for product development and operation.
The founders were classmates of the National Chengchi University Department of Management Information Systems, and he had the idea of starting a business when he was a student. Ray Wei said “ In my senior year, I interned as a pre-sales at Microsoft and faced large enterprise customers. Although I helped the company develop valuable customers, what I did was just a little role in an enterprise. I see that many problems in life can be solved with technology. If I spend 8 hours everyday of the best time in my life in such an environment, I can’t do anything. I want to live my life according to my life script. If life cannot be changed, what is the difference with death?”
Because of this belief, they used their spare time to start a series of projects when they were in the National Taiwan University graduate school. They developed the Plurk analysis tool, accumulating 100 new users in one night. They asked students to write the app together. After two adjustments, the third version of the app was released for over 300,000 downloads a month. In 2014, they found a company with this App when leaving the military services. However, no profit and limited market growth make them decide to stop the App project. From the process of marketing App, they explored the business topic of PicSee.
They started their business, including exploring the development/design of products, marketing, finance, team leadership, and building up PicSee with their own values. Ray Wei said “PicSee has two things to be proud of. The first is the internship recruited during the App period in 2014. They are together with us, who turned into full-time and the core partners of PicSee. The second is that from 2014 to now, we have eaten almost every lunch together. Because I believe that the core team cannot be just colleagues at the initial stage of a startup company, and our topic cannot only be work, we can share our lives freely.
Employees say to the boss “Did you go anywhere during your annual vacation?” which is normal in PicSee.