When Jon Mattingly, Hamish Cohen, Sean Burke, and I founded Proteus back in 2015, we weren’t trying to disrupt an industry or chase “unicorn” status for a Private Equity buyout. We just wanted to build the kind of company we wished we could have worked with when we were litigating.
That meant building our company around people as the foundation, not the processes, and not ego. And it meant setting down, from day one, a clear and uncompromising set of Core Values.
These weren’t marketing fluff or mission-statement wallpaper. They were our blueprint: the standard by which we’d hire, the lens through which we’d make decisions, and the expectations we’d hold ourselves to – even when no one was watching.
Let me reintroduce them:
