In Person Work
topic on 3 shows · 11 statements across 11 episodes
BigDeal 
Capital Allocators 
20VC
11 statements about In Person Work, every show
Gladwell: Senior Staff Only Need Offices to Mentor Junior Colleagues
“Now the reason to go into work is different. Now the reason to go into work is to allow others to have the same opportunity that I had, right? But if I had to work remotely for the rest of my career, would I be fine? I'd be totally fine. It just doesn't make a…”
Rapidly scaling companies benefit significantly from in-person work
“Things are moving so quickly that the more time that you have in person, the better. There's no question about it.”
Carl Rivera: Start in person and go fully remote at 150 employees
“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.”
Zhang: In-person work is significantly more productive than remote work
“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…”
Tenev: Remote work will not rapidly replace in-person collaboration
“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…”
Sanchez: In-person collaborative work would solve most young adult loneliness
“I think most of young adult loneliness in this country would be solved by a group of people getting in person, solving big problems together, and I think we forgot that that's why we used to want to work together.”
Gomez: In-person work provides an unquantifiable productivity lift over remote
“In-person is just so much better. It's just, you can't even quantify the productivity lift from in-person work.”
Richter: In-person work is essential for strategy, optional for execution
“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, …”
In-Person Fits Early Creative Work, Remote Suits Scaled Incremental Execution
“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 …”
Finance is an apprenticeship business requiring in-person collaboration for better performance
“This is an apprenticeship business in every way. So the more we can be together, the better.”
Katzenberg: Companies will return to in-person work for key roles
“The value of people being together in certain types of functions inside of companies, I think is invaluable. And I think it's been underestimated, and I think you'll see a return to it. It may not happen overnight, but it'll get there.”