It's definitely not for everyone. However, one of the reason this often works for small startups is that we hire our friends. From among my friends, I find th

It's definitely not for everyone. However, one of the reason this often works for small startups is that we hire our friends. From among my friends, I find the people whose abilities I know best, who I trust the most, and who I'm confident I can work well with. Thus I hire friends, thus I am happy spending time with them. But yeah, I've worked plenty of places where spending 10-15 days in another country with my coworkers would've been a nightmare. And once a small startup becomes a 50+ person company, this gets really really hard to do.