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It's been useful already. One of the founders was out of town at the last YC dinner and but he participated in a conversation in the lobby with me and his cofo
by pg 14y ago
It's been useful already. One of the founders was out of town at the last YC dinner and but he participated in a conversation in the lobby with me and his cofounder through a Double. He wouldn't have been able to if he'd been using a standard teleconferencing setup, because it wasn't a pre-arranged meeting.
In my experience, many if not most of the most important conversations are not pre-arranged meetings. If you use existing teleconferencing technology you miss them all, and if you use a Double you don't. That's a qualitative change.
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- kdsudac 14y agoPre-arranged meetings are the first thing that jumps into people's minds, but do telecommuters really want to replicate the experience of being in meetings? For me, one of the nicer aspects of telecommuting is I can call into meetings and during portions of the meeting that don't apply to me (or are boring) I can work (or surf the web). On the other hand, people do have a love/hate relationship with meetings: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120519462810425677.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120519462810425677.html I can buy into the importance of impromptu meetings. I wonder if the Double team can figure out a way to market around impromptu vs pre-arranged meetings and love/hate meetings without alienating too many people.