Jared GoetzZenpire · CEO & Founder at Zendrop

Most people think the best business advice is some secret strategy nobody else knows...

6 Jun 2026 · 0 min

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In this segment, the speaker recounts how, in 2011, he founded a completely distributed company. The venture began using Skype for communication, but after a week the platform failed, and the later emergence of Zoom proved crucial for the company's survival. The core motivation was to access the best talent without geographic constraints, turning the world into a limitless hiring pool and providing a significant competitive edge over location‑bound firms.

That was the most important thing that I did back in 2011 when we started the company. It was actually fairly unique, which is a completely distributed company. We actually started the company on Skype. That worked for about a week until it didn't. Thank God Zoom came out when it did, because I'm not sure the company would have survived. What I wanted to do was find the very best talent and not be limited by geography. That led you to basically the world is your oyster in terms of hiring. That gave us an enormous advantage of finding people that we would have never been able to hire if we were just localized to one specific location.