1) An office that was well-constructed to support remotes connecting in. It can be surprisingly challenging to ensure a positive experience for partially remote

1) An office that was well-constructed to support remotes connecting in. It can be surprisingly challenging to ensure a positive experience for partially remote meetings, and this wasn't consistently perfect, but the effort was put in. 2) Having people team members who were fully focused on 'remote experience', and ensuring that perks for in-office folks had comparable events and such for remotes. 3) ~Almost all roles being eligible for remote. There were a few organizational exceptions outside of eng, but for the most part any team could hire remotely with fairly little friction. Really, it was a learning experience over time, and it requires intentional effort to be a 50/50 company, but despite some other flaws, DigitalOcean was ~generally good at this while I was there.