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Wordpress is another example, they employ close to 1000 remotely working people (as I heard from a friend working at there).

langitbiru 7y ago
Automattic is the name of the company. WordPress is the name of the product. Anyway, what I like about GitLab and Automattic is they are agnostic-timezone remote company. You can live in any timezone to work in GitLab or Automattic. Some remote companies only accept certain timezones.
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- xiphias2 7y ago
  What's most interesting to me is remote + scale. There are many small remote companies that don't try to scale, as they prioritise just having a nice product that solves 1 relatively simple task very well, while having a comfortable life style for the employees. But so far there's no remote-first company on the stock market.
  - langitbiru 7y ago
    So let's wait until GitLab IPO. That will be a good story case for evangelizing remote-first companies. :)
  - meowface 7y ago
    It's only recently become possible to run a remote-first company in an effective and cheap way. Give it time.
    - xiphias2 7y ago
      What do you mean? Video conferencing was already easy to do 10 years ago. Looking back to the history of GitLab you are right that it just took 8 years to scale the company to this size, but I hope that others are already coming.
      - meowface 7y ago
        There are way more requirements to run a company than simply being able to communicate by voice or video. There's a lot of infrastructure and overhead that's involved. Before Stripe, you might have to store credit cards, and then you might need physically colocated servers. Before G Suite and AWS and... I haven't started a startup myself, but I believe there are a lot of variables involved. These kinds of apps and services, and video conferencing, were all around 10 years ago, but everything's been improved and consolidated enough that now a 100% remote company can actually go toe-to-toe with one that isn't. 10 years isn't that long ago in the scheme of the global market economy. Technological progress takes time. VR was available 10 years ago, but it's still not really "ready for primetime". Remote working solutions, for all aspects of work, are now ready for primetime.
RobertDeNiro 7y ago
Also invision.

langitbiru 7y ago

Automattic is the name of the company. WordPress is the name of the product. Anyway, what I like about GitLab and Automattic is they are agnostic-timezone remote company. You can live in any timezone to work in GitLab or Automattic. Some remote companies only accept certain timezones.

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xiphias2 7y ago
What's most interesting to me is remote + scale. There are many small remote companies that don't try to scale, as they prioritise just having a nice product that solves 1 relatively simple task very well, while having a comfortable life style for the employees. But so far there's no remote-first company on the stock market.
- langitbiru 7y ago
  So let's wait until GitLab IPO. That will be a good story case for evangelizing remote-first companies. :)
- meowface 7y ago
  It's only recently become possible to run a remote-first company in an effective and cheap way. Give it time.
  - xiphias2 7y ago
    What do you mean? Video conferencing was already easy to do 10 years ago. Looking back to the history of GitLab you are right that it just took 8 years to scale the company to this size, but I hope that others are already coming.
    - meowface 7y ago
      There are way more requirements to run a company than simply being able to communicate by voice or video. There's a lot of infrastructure and overhead that's involved. Before Stripe, you might have to store credit cards, and then you might need physically colocated servers. Before G Suite and AWS and... I haven't started a startup myself, but I believe there are a lot of variables involved. These kinds of apps and services, and video conferencing, were all around 10 years ago, but everything's been improved and consolidated enough that now a 100% remote company can actually go toe-to-toe with one that isn't. 10 years isn't that long ago in the scheme of the global market economy. Technological progress takes time. VR was available 10 years ago, but it's still not really "ready for primetime". Remote working solutions, for all aspects of work, are now ready for primetime.

RobertDeNiro 7y ago

Also invision.