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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 in
by 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.