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Ask HN: Examples of companies with cofounders starting together at distance
- gamechangr 11y agoInteresting... I always thought that was a deal breaker and the very reason that people head to the bay area (or any Startup city). I would be pretty easy to have an existing relationship move across the country/world and then still make it work, but I think it would be quite difficult to be able to find a stranger and build a strong working relationship. I'm pretty sure that 37 signals started that way.
- a_lifters_life 11y agoThanks for the posting, I know 37S did. Do you know of others?
- atmosx 11y agohttp://scrapinghub.com/ http://scrapinghub.com/ Shane is from Ireland and Pablo is from Uruguay.
- GFischer 11y agoWow, awesome, I hadn't heard of them, and I'm from Uruguay myself.
- pablohoffman 11y agoNot surprised, I'm pretty low profile :)
- S4M 11y agoNot a company, although they are spanning one out of it, but the team behind Julia (the programming language) started from different locations and didn't meet each other before a year (can't find the article about it right now, sorry).
- kohanz 11y agoStackOverflow [0] Second, I'm a big believer in putting everyone in one office, because I think that face-to-face communication is crucial. But the people who set up Stack Overflow are scattered geographically: I'm in New York; Jeff is in California; and he manages programmers who live in Oregon, Arkansas, and North Carolina. [0] http://www.inc.com/magazine/20081101/how-hard-could-it-be-the-unproven-path.html http://www.inc.com/magazine/20081101/how-hard-could-it-be-th...