Video Call

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Andreessen: Fully remote video calls are much better than hybrid meetings
“It was such a it was such a big step to just to not have that, to have everybody on a as I say, where it's much better, of course, to have everybody just on a video call versus a hybrid meeting.”
Marc Andreessen Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 7:33 Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
Evans: Video calls eliminate peripheral vision and serendipitous workplace interactions
“The problem with a video call is there's no peripheral vision. So you can't kind of see what else is going on. You can't see what other people are looking at or thinking about. You're sitting in an office, you can't hear what other people are doing. You can't …”
Benedict Evans Feb 28, 2021 ▶ 3:19 Who's in the office? Notes on a year of remote work.
20VC Insight
Walking one-on-ones yield more candid conversations than video calls
“I find when we're walking, we have a more candid Conversation. More emotion is leveraged in those conversations than when we're on video going through to do lists.”
Jennifer Tejada Aug 28, 2020 ▶ 18:02 20VC: PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada on A Leader's Relationship To Risk, Insecurity, Making Decisions with Imperfect Data & What Successful Board Management Looks Like
McCusker: Video calls reduce informal competitor intelligence gathered during manager meetings
“That may be one of the things that we lose by not having the in-person meetings in the office. I think that can often be part of the conversation at the beginning or end of a manager meeting, kind of the casual chit chat of, hey, what are you hearing from othe…”
Tim McCusker Apr 30, 2020 ▶ 20:18 Tim McCusker – Advising Through a Crisis at NEPC (Capital Allocators, EP.135)
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Sinha: Google hosted 20,000 daily video calls for 40,000 employees
“When we were at Google, I think we left right around the same time, but when we were at Google, we were around 40,000 people. Every single day, they would do 20,000 video calls. The average person used video one to two times a day”
Shan Sinha Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:03 a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce

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