remote work

“People make the mistake of thinking remote work is just like the office, but from home. So they take all the same principles or approaches that they would do in an office, and they try to replicate those remotely. The number one perhaps being meetings. Lots of…”

“Seems like an historic inevitability that remote work is going to take off and going to be the dominant force of How we work when we do creative work that can be done in front of a computer from anywhere.”

“We actually never did remote work as a company. We always believed in being in the same office, having this kind of serendipity that you get by bumping into people and having an interesting discussion, waiting for the coffee or something. So we never did remot…”

“You're going to lose a lot of your team. I think you'll lose 20 to 30% of your team if they don't have the initial outset that this is going to be a remote company.”

“And I think that's actually the biggest thing that's missing from remote work. There are things that I learned from working for some of the best people in our business or other businesses.”

“We tried it for two years at Wonderco Harry and just blew it up. I just, I got us new offices starting, I mean, starting this month and next month.”

“And I think that's actually the biggest thing that's missing from remote work is there are things that I learned from watching working for some of the best people in our business or other businesses”

“How to get there was great remote. What is possible is not that good.”

“I don't buy remote by the way. I think remote is one of the most poisonous things.”

“Highly creative, fast moving work where you're not sure what the requirements are and where your customers are local, meaning where you can go and talk to your customers by like walking over to their office. So this is like historical new company, new startup …”

“I also think, like, share a voice is better when it's done remotely. Like, people don't feel as intimidated to speak up in a lot of cases.”

“By the way, I think remote work can really work, but it's not going to benefit the people who think like, it's not going to be people making 250,000 dollars a year hanging out in Jackson Hole. It's going to be geniuses in the developing world Making, you know,…”

“I think remote work is Very, very difficult to achieve a build a company culture. I think individuals can succeed. I'm incredibly productive working in my house with there's no distraction. I'm incredibly productive individual contributor, but great things get…”

“Everything that has to do with planning that has to do with aligning on strategy, figuring out architecture, you know playing thoughts back and forth. These things work way better. I do think if you have a plan, if you need to deliver if it's like very clear, …”

“I don't think so. And I say that as someone who is a homebody and loves being remote, but like, it's honestly like having even, I mean, if you have a suit, maybe, but having the suit and just the random quirkiness and the thing, like the things around our work…”

“I don't know any role that is better performed remotely, even engineering scrums, the collaboration that devs need together with product, with sales, with customer success.”

“Because I can't think of a role which is done better remotely, and people disagree with me. And I'm always open to have my mind changed.”

“They don't feel trapped in the office. They don't feel like they have to show up early to do FaceTime. They don't feel like they have to be the last one to leave. They don't have to pretend like they're busy. It's so life enabling to them that they're grateful…”

“I, I've come to think it's, especially in our business, just doesn't work.”

“Not thinking that it is a way of operating and just thinking that it's something like you can keep flipping back and forth. Like you have to build the whole company around being a remote culture and not just decide one day that, okay, today we're remote and th…”

“Humans have been like building relationships and working together in person for thousands of years, and I don't think that that's gonna go away instantaneously through technology. I think that that's a, it's a pretty high bar to kind of declare that the domina…”

“There are many people who are actually quite, you know, well motivated. They can see the goal. They don't need a reminder of their colleague. They got the colleagues in their heads. They don't need to see the building. They don't need to see the logo. They don…”

“And the reality is I was dead wrong. We're getting back into the office. The collaboration, the productivity, like, it's not even close, and it's very painful getting back into the office, and you know what is worse than that? It's not getting back in the offi…”

“I think remote work is a disaster for young people. I think they need to meet each other, learn how to read the room.”

“It's just way more productive. My last company, we were remote, so because it was during COVID, and I think there's pros and cons of that, but I think overall, just personality-wise, it just comes down to the founder's personalities. Like, Ashwin and I are doi…”

“If I started a new company, I believe I would start it in person, and I would have an agreement that at some level, say, a 150 people were all going to turn remote.”

“I used to think pure remote would scale for early stage companies if you have the right culture, but I don't think that anymore. I think you've got to be in person at least a few days a week.”

“Well, I got, I say it's white collar fraud.”