Bouaziz: Early-stage startups should avoid asynchronous work to build faster
Alex Bouaziz · Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing) · Dec 20, 2022 · at 14:34
Alex Bouaziz, co-founder and CEO of Deel, pushes back against universal asynchronous work practices on The a16z Podcast.
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“There's different stage at a company when you're very early. I don't think async work is the right way to go. I think you need to build fast, you need to get things done.”
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