An interesting thing is when your company truly is special, remote may be a much better option. I work for Ksplice (which is now part of Oracle). Ksplice needed

An interesting thing is when your company truly is special, remote may be a much better option. I work for Ksplice (which is now part of Oracle). Ksplice needed people with Linux kernel knowledge, and there is no central tech pool for that. The company had to build itself in a way that supported remote workers. I think many people use a crutch that it will be too hard to build a company that way, but that is because they think in terms of "average" developers. With average developers, it will be hard, but once you realize your talent pool becomes much richer and will often include people who are already familiar with working remotely, it becomes much, much easier.