Zoom

“And so I think we're on the cusp of Zoom actually becoming a useful tool, but what is holding it back is status-focused management that wants to make sure there's butts in seats and enforcement as opposed to using it as the peer-to-peer magical tool it could b…”

“And then when we moved to the virtual world, most conference organizers completely missed the memo, and they think their job, because they're buying status, is to cram a TED talk into a Zoom room. And that just doesn't work.”

“And in a way, like you had technologies like Slack and Zoom That I think facilitated a new way of working, which was the ability for us to be remote, but aren't actually native to the way we are working when you're working remote. And so you're seeing a new ge…”

“The jerkiness of our Zoom calls and the, you know, which just kind of doesn't help us, our brains be able to synchronize with each other, which They need to do in order to feel empathetic and connected.”

“We don't look at each other when we're on Zoom, typically. Right. You know, our eye lines aren't looking at each other because of the way it's set up, and in fact, all too often we're distracted by the pictures of ourselves on our screen, turning our interacti…”

“If you want some bursts of creativity, it helps to have a lot of people actually interacting in real time, face to face, in an intimate fashion, and then you can disperse that creativity, whether it's a group that gets together and starts figuring out how to d…”

“Some of the research shows, one, higher levels of depression and anxiety with work from home. So I actually think that was a great lie. It was a big, beautiful lie. That sitting in our sweatpants, in our house, on Zoom meetings all day would actually make us h…”

“At Sequoia, I mean, we take a lot of first meetings over Zoom and during the pandemic when we were only doing meetings over Zoom, you just never got the right texture for the company, the cadence of the, how the company operated, and yeah, we might still take …”