Paul Evans is founder of Mindera, a leading global software engineering company based in the UK. Mindera operates without job titles or hierarchy and allows people to take on projects in different parts of the business. With revenue of £85m, the company has offices in London, Leicester, Portugal, San Francisco and India with clients like Selfridges, Trainline and New Look. I had a bad childhood stammer and I’ve always felt it important for everyone to be treated equally. At Mindera, everyone gets the same bonus wherever they are, no one has their own office and everyone is a shareholder. It all harks back to my first boss, Sandra Barrie. I did a computer science BTEC but, aged 18, decided I wasn’t ready to do a degree. In 1988, I joined the civil service wanting to be a software developer but at the time you had to have a degree to write code. So I started out in the finance department in Plymouth. Read More: My first boss: Tony Jamous, CEO of global HR platform Oyster One day the tech director asked me to do a simple Word spreadsheet. These were the days when offices had one big PC in the...