Recruitment Response

Hi Swathi,

Danny here from Optivide!

Recently, we have started to hire a potential Chief Gamification Officer(CGO) who executes tasks and delivers results to move our progress forward.

The job expectations and potential benefits can be found here: https://wellfound.com/l/2zZPXD

If interested, please apply with your gamification design portfolios.

I would be happy to explore our potential cooperation.

On a separate note, we have launched our free regenerative finance training program for biodiversity.

If interested, access it here: https://optivide.com/event/event/nature-credit-for-biodiversity

Or, if you know some of the suitable candidates, please pass over the information to them.

Hi XXX,

Danny from Optivide.

It’s our pleasure to learn about your interest in the XXXX position at Optivide.

Before we proceed further, here are 3 quick questions that we would love to invite you to self-assess.

1. Do you understand that it is an unpaid co-founder position, where all founders need to equally cover the business's operational expenses?
2. Do you perform the work with coding and software engineering?
3. Are you able to write 7 content posts/month for marketing promotion(3 personal/4 official)?
4. Do you understand that we do not accept applications on LinkedIn? And only review the applicants from the application link we provided in the job description?
5. Do you perform the work with gamification and Octalysis Framework?

If you answer all 3 questions with a strong yes, we will arrange the stage 2 meeting with you in the upcoming weeks.

We would love to extend our warm welcome to connect over a coffee chat and discuss how we might collaborate together.

Please kindly find the time slot that works best for you here:

cal.com/dannychen/30-min-meeting-group-meeting

Looking forward to the talk with you.

Warm Regards,

Danny Chen

Hi XXX,

Danny from Optivide. It’s our pleasure to learn about your interest in the Chief Technology Officer position at Optivide.

Based on the current GitHub repository shared, it is not enough for us to make the proper judgment. I would love to know if you have any additional publicly shareable repositories for us to conduct the review before our meetup.

Warm Regards,

Danny Chen

Hi XXX,

Danny from Optivide.

It’s our pleasure to learn about your interest in the Chief Technology Officer position at Optivide.

Your self-introduction Loom video catches my eye./Your past career experience is quite impressive.

We are currently preparing for future team members, and I would love to stay connected with you on LinkedIn and have a conversation to explore more information from you.

Here is my LinkedIn profile: linkedin.com/in/chien-chih-chen-cfa-20100a168

Before we have our meeting, please make sure that you have read through all the details in our job description, where we will address your questions accordingly.

The time schedule: https://cal.com/dannychen/30min

Warm Regards,

Danny Chen

Hi XXX,

Thank you so much for your application.

After the internal review process, we will not proceed forward with your application.

Your passion, experience, and vision are impressive. However, due to the large application, we need to make difficult decisions.

Please know this decision was not a reflection of your abilities or potential.

We would love to express our team's gratitude and wish you a better future endeavor.

Warm Regards,

Optivide

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Hello XXX,

Danny here from Optivide.

After the previous meeting conversation with the initial document review, we would love to inform you that you have been selected to join our final round of conversation with our technical advisor, Alexander.

Our startup value is derived from the overall capability of our co-founders to push progress forward when things are not easy.

If you are able to fulfill the commitment on both a 6-month full-time commitment and a 6,000USD financial commitment, we would love to extend our warm welcome to have our final conversation with you.

Currently, we have secured 2.4M USD of our 3.7M USD round, where we are forming a 3-founder team to move our progress forward and close our round sooner.

We have shortlisted our potential Chief Gamification Officer, who will commit 6,000USD upfront with full-time commitment in the next 6 months as requested to start the cooperation.

If the B2C climate finance solution resonates with you, please kindly notify us within the next 48 hours. We will arrange your final conversation with our technical advisor.

If there are any questions or concerns that you would love to discuss, please share them directly with me here. Appreciate it.

Hello XXX,

It's nice to have the conversation with you previously.

Recently, we have shortlisted our potential Chief Gamification Officer, who will commit 6,000USD upfront as requested to start the cooperation in the next 6 months.

As mentioned, in July 2025, we have secured 2.4M USD of our 3.7M USD,

where I’m currently looking for a potential technical person to move our progress forward together.

The maximal risks that the new colleague who joins us are capped at:

#1 Time Commitment: Full-time Commitment in the next 6 months.

#2 Financial Commitment: 6000USD upfront to partially cover the business operational costs

Our startup value is derived from the overall capability of our co-founders to push progress forward when things are not easy.

We've found that the stage 1 and stage 2 financial commitment help founders stay committed, show up consistently, and get more value—leading to a stronger, more focused founder relationship.

Also, we would love to invite you to reflect on how your expertise could contribute to our startup revenue stream with a B2C climate finance solution.

In an early-stage startup, it is important for all founders to form a sales culture to acquire and retain potential customers, where ticking all the boxes on the checklist is not enough to make our startup survive and thrive.

As we prepare to finalize our potential Chief Technology Officer, if you would love to be considered, please kindly notify us as soon as possible.

If there are any questions or concerns that you would love to discuss, please share them directly with me here.

Hello XXX,

Glad to learn that you would love to proceed further.

The meeting will focus on the technical conversation on system design, where he will be one of the technical mentors who work together with our founder team. We will make our final decision based on all the documents and the conversation we had with all the finalists.

Here is the meeting link to have the conversation with Alexander next week: https://cal.com/dannychen/conversation-with-alexander

Please kindly confirm the time with him this week so that we can streamline all the preparation. Appreciate your kind support and understanding.

Pangeran,

Jonathan, Danny here! Hope you are doing great!

We will conclude our last few CTO conversations next week, where the final decision will be made together with Alexander before the end of October.

Wish you a great rest and a lovely weekend.

One thing I should be transparent about:

For anyone joining as a technical member, I’m asking for a minimum $3k capital commitment alongside time. I’ve personally funded the first <X> months and already validated <specific signal>. I’m intentionally keeping the founding team very small. It’s less about the money and more about shared conviction and speed. I’ve made the same commitment myself.

If that’s not a fit, I completely understand that. Appreciate the honest conversation. If timing or structure changes later, feel free to reach out.

“We’re both committing risk early. I’m covering 20K USD in the past 2 years and prepare to close the 3.7M USD round with 2.4M USD committed. I ask each co-founder to contribute a small amount of shared capital so we’re equally accountable.

We are not looking for employees who are looking for salaries. We are inviting people who share the vision that we aspire to achieve with commitments. The 10,000USD financial commitment from a foreign founder cannot even cover the O-1A visa when we have successfully secured the 3.7M USD round and move with full speed…Even from the simple coffee shop businesses, all founders/shop owners need to commit everything they have (financial and expertise) to run a revenue-generating business. It is very cheap to say that I'm passionate about your work or that I will work hard. And it is very true when you ask others to put their money where they say they would and show us the outcomes they actually deliver.

• Risk Tolerance Alignment
• Employment law issues
• Unequal power dynamics
• Equity Compensation Irrelevant
• Respect Previous Efforts

• Legal founder agreement signature
• Transfer into the business account
• Expense information transparent disclosure
• Use only for the company expenses(not covers business travels)
• Return if the company dissolves early if the fund remain

• 10K USD By Default(Chief Technology Officer): 12% Equity Grant, 3-9% Equity Purchase Option(5K for 1% equity)
• 3K USD for Founding Engineer: 1% Equity Grant, Potential Path to CTO Role