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Why don't you show us successful startups where people built it fully remotely without meeting each other in person? Sam is claiming that in early stage startup

Why don't you show us successful startups where people built it fully remotely without meeting each other in person? Sam is claiming that in early stage startups, one need some in-person interaction which I fully agree with.

wg0 3y ago
As the claim is being made in the above - I'd like to see the startups that didn't work out solely because they were remote. There are plenty of companies working fully remote of different sizes ranging from a duo to a trio of three up to few hundred. The claim is as absurd as startups not having mechanical keyboards or not using JIRA fail miserably to capture market.
pcthrowaway 3y ago
I don't want to out myself, but the company I work for is a smallish startup (<100 people now) that has revenue, and closed a multimillion dollar round last year. Most of the people there have never met in person (I've been there for >2 years and have not met any of my coworkers, and only one is in my country, at the opposite end) While some of the execs have met in person now, the whole thing was bootstrapped by a handful of people before they met.
vaidhy 3y ago
I do not know much about startups.. but there are many, many successful projects that have been fully remote - Linux, GNU, Debian, etc. Almost all open source projects I know of do not need an office space.
fakedang 3y ago
Supabase comes into mind....
pdonis 3y ago
> Sam is claiming that in early stage startups, one need some in-person interaction He's claiming that, but that's not all he's claiming. His claim about remote work being a big mistake for the tech industry is much broader than just early stage startups. But as far as I can tell, he has no real basis for his claim except for early stage startups; so his claim could be true for them but false for the tech industry as a whole.
chris222 3y ago
You can be remote and also meet in person. You make zero sense.

wg0 3y ago

As the claim is being made in the above - I'd like to see the startups that didn't work out solely because they were remote. There are plenty of companies working fully remote of different sizes ranging from a duo to a trio of three up to few hundred. The claim is as absurd as startups not having mechanical keyboards or not using JIRA fail miserably to capture market.

pcthrowaway 3y ago

I don't want to out myself, but the company I work for is a smallish startup (<100 people now) that has revenue, and closed a multimillion dollar round last year. Most of the people there have never met in person (I've been there for >2 years and have not met any of my coworkers, and only one is in my country, at the opposite end) While some of the execs have met in person now, the whole thing was bootstrapped by a handful of people before they met.

vaidhy 3y ago

I do not know much about startups.. but there are many, many successful projects that have been fully remote - Linux, GNU, Debian, etc. Almost all open source projects I know of do not need an office space.

fakedang 3y ago

Supabase comes into mind....

pdonis 3y ago

> Sam is claiming that in early stage startups, one need some in-person interaction He's claiming that, but that's not all he's claiming. His claim about remote work being a big mistake for the tech industry is much broader than just early stage startups. But as far as I can tell, he has no real basis for his claim except for early stage startups; so his claim could be true for them but false for the tech industry as a whole.

chris222 3y ago

You can be remote and also meet in person. You make zero sense.