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Don't kid yourself, it's not going to be as efficient. Audio and delay are big issues, as not everybody can talk at the same time. But the point is that it is d
by levesque 8y ago
Don't kid yourself, it's not going to be as efficient. Audio and delay are big issues, as not everybody can talk at the same time. But the point is that it is doable, and some companies have good success with that. They are usually small-medium companies though, my guess is we won't be seeing any 100% remote unicorns popping up.
- luisfmh 8y agoelastic?
- mirekrusin 8y agoYou mean like github?
- jdietrich 8y agoIt continues to amaze me that most businesses use worse conferencing tools than the average e-sports clan. High-quality, low-latency conferencing and screen sharing is essentially a solved problem if you don't use completely crappy tools.
- yread 8y agoWhich tools should you use?
- Kluny 8y agoZoom.
- speedplane 8y agoMost businesses have far more requirements than a e-sports clan, namely security, standardization, and dealing with large numbers of people. An e-sports clan can change their service in a day with one email. A large organization can't move that nimbly.
- kalleboo 8y agoWe changed our voice conferencing to Discord since it worked better than anything else we had tried
- ivalm 8y agoWolfram has 800 employees, most of them tech, which puts payroll at ~160m. Suppose 30% margin, thats about $50m earnings, at 20p/e thats about $1b/unicorn.
- nadc 8y agoBoth GitLab and InVision are 100% remote unicorns, last valued at $1.1B [1] and $1.9B [2] respectively. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/19/gitlab-raises-100m/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/19/gitlab-raises-100m/ [2] https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/invision-valued-at-1-9-billion-picks-up-115-million-series-f/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/invision-valued-at-1-9-bil...
- levesque 8y agoHaha I did set up the stage for the multiple slam dunks I received as replies. This is really amazing.