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Hiring Remotely: A Startup Success Story

Name: Hiring Remotely: A Startup Success Story
Uploaded: 2020-06-09T20:28:18+00:00
Duration: 1 min 5 s
Channel: Royston G King
Description: In this interview excerpt, the co-founders of a startup explain how they adopted a remote‑first model from day one. Their collaboration began during a…

9 Jun 2020 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, the co-founders of a startup explain how they adopted a remote‑first model from day one. Their collaboration began during a hackathon while one founder was an MIT undergraduate and the other attended UPenn. After moving to San Francisco they chose not to lease office space, questioning whether hiring Bay Area engineers justified the cost. They concluded that staying remote was both a smart business decision and an enjoyable way to work, offering schedule control and flexibility.

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Was this your plan all along to build remote, or how was that part of sort of the scrappy thing, or like how did that just start?
So we actually started off remote from day one, uh, because I went to MIT undergrad and my co-founder Krish went to UPenn, and we had— we worked together on a hackathon, and then we just continued working remotely, um, throughout our entire— like, uh, throughout those years. And when we moved out to SF we moved together, but we were living different places and we didn't want to get an office space, so even then we were still remote. And then it just made sense to us, like, we had to really think critically about, is it worth, you know, hiring a Bay engineer, a Bay Area engineer, and getting office space here, or is there another solution? So for us, remote was always a smart thing to do, and it was also It was also the most fun, as many people are finding out now, being able to work from home, control your schedule. So yeah, we've always been remote and we've always wanted to be.