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They stress the importance of location of team members relative to each other, or the importance of being in the valley? From my understanding, Google has a num
by paulgb 16y ago
They stress the importance of location of team members relative to each other, or the importance of being in the valley? From my understanding, Google has a number of engineering sites outside of the Valley, even in the USA.
- steveklabnik 16y agoThey do, but I think they still keep the individual teams close to one another. I know that the team here in Pittsburgh works on only certain products, at least.
- nostrademons 16y agoWhen you're a startup, that's pretty much one and the same. The overall principles are that team members should be close to one another, and that you should focus very intensively on making sure you have the right team. In cities with a lower density of technical people than the valley, it's very difficult to have both a critical mass of highly-skilled people and have those people all colocated together. You occasional see successful startups like 37signals or Flickr that have smart people, but do so by having them work remotely. And you see lots of startups that attempt to get lots of local people, but sacrifice team quality as a result. You don't tend to hear much from those. But it's when you combine smart people with critical mass that you get something like Google.