Petersen: Remote work prevents effective team formation and company culture
Ryan Petersen · Ryan Petersen: Why Velocity not Speed is Most Important in Company Building | E1081 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Nov 13, 2023 · at 54:55
Ryan Petersen is the Founder and CEO of Flexport. He discusses the limitations of remote work on company culture and team bonding with host Harry Stebbings.
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“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 achieved by teams and teams don't really form over video conferencing. Teams form when you get together and you collaborate and you have dialogue and like you capture emotion, body language, and Contacts, and you jam, and you stay up late, and it's not constrained by the 30 minutes of our video call, like, and that just doesn't happen on remote work.”
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