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Fully distributed organizations outperform in-person companies across all metrics
“Level five is where I believe that the organization in a distributed fashion is outperforming at every single level, productivity, quality, employee happiness, everything, any in-person organization. Because you've embraced all the power, all the special featu…”
Mullenweg: Successful platforms capture only 5% of ecosystem revenue
“And I kept finding this ratio that's like 20 to one everywhere in successful platforms, not in fake platforms, like it's not on the Facebook platform. Facebook made like 90% of the dollars in that ecosystem, but in others.”
Asynchronous communication empowers introverted employees and outperforms live meetings
“I believe asynchronous interactions can be far richer than synchronous ones. You unlock the power of the introverts in your company. People for whom, in a real-time meeting, they might hang back a little bit or be shy, or they might need to think about things …”
Online interaction can only build 85% to 90% of in-person trust
“As humans, I still think there's something that is Impossible to recreate online, which is that breaking bread, you know, the bottle of wine you and I shared, whatever the equivalent of that is. It just builds trust in a way that you can get pretty close onlin…”
Mullenweg: Distributed work suffers more from overwork than underwork
“The problem we have actually in distributed work, so to get to another downside, is not under work, it's over work.”
Mullenweg: Incentives and Markets Always Trump Individual Corporate Action
“You know, I believe in, sort of, incentives and environments and markets always trump, you know, anything one individual or company can do.”
Mullenweg: Synchronous communication is inefficient due to its 1:1 time ratio
“I think one downside of synchronous communication is it's kind of one-to-one. So the time that it's taking to communicate the information is also what it takes to consume it, and that's kind of inefficient.”
Mullenweg: Transparent meeting notes shrink meeting sizes and boost effectiveness
“If every meeting is transparent and has really good notes, or a recording, people don't feel the need to be there, and so the meeting can be smaller. Which also means it's more effective, where it's like, you know, not everyone is like, ah, I'm not in this mee…”
Mullenweg: Scaling from 20 to 50 people breaks brute-force collaboration
“Going from 20 to 50 people, you lose that ability to brute force the collaboration and getting everyone on the same page, and you really need to start communicating in a way which is, Well understood across the existing people, but also at that point, you're p…”
Asking what team members need for success empowers them
“It's like, is there anything I can do to help you? Versus What do you need for this to be a success? One is like putting the power with me to help you, and the other is putting the power with you to define what you need, and then I can support that, but ultima…”