Florio: Foxy operates with under 10 remote employees after 11 years
Brett Florio · 1141 Not shopify, not stripe, $2b+ in transaction volume processed · Sep 8, 2018 · at 7:57
Brett Florio, co-founder of e-commerce cart platform Foxy, discusses the company's internal headcount and remote team structure with host Nathan Latka.
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“So 11 years in, we're still a pretty small team. We're under 10. We're about half in the US, half international. Everybody is fully remote.”
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