I work at such a startup. We all live in different countries and different timezones. Everybody has a high level of autonomy and decision-making working on his

I work at such a startup. We all live in different countries and different timezones. Everybody has a high level of autonomy and decision-making working on his own stuff. Most of product communication happens in comments on Jira and technical — in PR comments on Github, both of which are completely async. There's also Slack for some realtime interaction, but it's okay not to be online. At average, I'd say that I have one or two video calls a week, and I don't feel that I need more. It's one of the most productive environments I had in my entire 15 year career.