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Anyone have examples of a well-known, successful company which is fully virtual like this?

AaronBBrown 14y ago
Basho, Github, and Percona immediately come to mind. Lots of other companies (including my current home, ideeli) have distributed Tech departments with employees all over the world.
- reinhardt 14y ago
  Still few and far between overall. Wondering when, if ever, it's going to be "the year of telecommuting". Hopefully sooner than the year of Linux on the desktop.
- spudlyo 14y ago
  Let's not forget MySQL AB, which predates all of these companies.
rpicard 14y ago
It's my understanding that at Mozilla you can choose to work remotely or in their office, so I imagine they shoot to make everything virtual to make that as seamless as possible. GitHub is largely distributed too [2]. I'd say that Automattic, the company that this poster works for, is pretty well-known and successful (makers of Wordpress, Gravatar, etc.). Also, DuckDuckGo (where I'm an intern) is mostly distributed, though you might have to stretch your definition of well-known to include us. :) [1] See around 1:30 in this video (I can't remember where I actually read about this): http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/ http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/ [2] http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works-hours/ http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works-hours/ , http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works/ http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works/
- daleharvey 14y ago
  The OP pretty much sums up exactly my experience working remotely at mozilla (and previously couchbase). I did write about it previously, not as well though - http://arandomurl.com/2011/09/03/working-remotely.html http://arandomurl.com/2011/09/03/working-remotely.html
ipmb 14y ago
Not as well-known as some of the other examples, but our company, Lincoln Loop (http://lincolnloop.com http://lincolnloop.com), is successful and fully virtual.
trustfundbaby 14y ago
37Signals and Github are two of my favorites
mikelbring 14y ago
Here is a link to a blog post about our company working remotely. https://creativemarket.com/blog/2012/07/31/working-together-across-time-zones https://creativemarket.com/blog/2012/07/31/working-together-...

Basho, Github, and Percona immediately come to mind. Lots of other companies (including my current home, ideeli) have distributed Tech departments with employees all over the world.

reinhardt 14y ago
Still few and far between overall. Wondering when, if ever, it's going to be "the year of telecommuting". Hopefully sooner than the year of Linux on the desktop.
spudlyo 14y ago
Let's not forget MySQL AB, which predates all of these companies.

rpicard 14y ago

It's my understanding that at Mozilla you can choose to work remotely or in their office, so I imagine they shoot to make everything virtual to make that as seamless as possible. GitHub is largely distributed too [2]. I'd say that Automattic, the company that this poster works for, is pretty well-known and successful (makers of Wordpress, Gravatar, etc.). Also, DuckDuckGo (where I'm an intern) is mostly distributed, though you might have to stretch your definition of well-known to include us. :) [1] See around 1:30 in this video (I can't remember where I actually read about this): http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/ http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/ [2] http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works-hours/ http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works-hours/ , http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works/ http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works/

daleharvey 14y ago
The OP pretty much sums up exactly my experience working remotely at mozilla (and previously couchbase). I did write about it previously, not as well though - http://arandomurl.com/2011/09/03/working-remotely.html http://arandomurl.com/2011/09/03/working-remotely.html

ipmb 14y ago

Not as well-known as some of the other examples, but our company, Lincoln Loop (http://lincolnloop.com http://lincolnloop.com), is successful and fully virtual.

trustfundbaby 14y ago

37Signals and Github are two of my favorites

mikelbring 14y ago

Here is a link to a blog post about our company working remotely. https://creativemarket.com/blog/2012/07/31/working-together-across-time-zones https://creativemarket.com/blog/2012/07/31/working-together-...