Oh, yes, in many ways, yes! What I meant by that: these three examples might feel, to VCs and founders, like anomalies rather than examples of an alternative s

Oh, yes, in many ways, yes! What I meant by that: these three examples might feel, to VCs and founders, like anomalies rather than examples of an alternative scaling model for high-growth software/tech enterprises operating on a startup-to-IPO trajectory. Elastic, Automattic, InVision, Zapier, by contrast, are "traditional high-growth startups" in every respect, but where the founders simply chose fully distributed as the scaling/hiring model.