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It's only recently become possible to run a remote-first company in an effective and cheap way. Give it time.
by 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 agoWhat 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 agoThere 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.