• 2/3 remote
• if you want the best people, hire everywhere
• schedule flexibility
• dance
• 40-hour work week

keeping in touch

use GitHub for

everything

• e.g.
  • equipment
  • legal
• lucky that we use our product constantly
• dogfooding
• feedback loop

together

when

apart

• pulse of the company
• post updates internally
• non-work stuff, e.g. babies
• ships
  • not just product
  • pride
• shoutouts

in-person

• summits
• conferences
• hack houses
• work-cation

• first job working remotely
• meet up w/ hubbers when traveling
• conference buddy
• workcation: working from TLV/Brazil

• often-cited benefits: advertising and recruiting
• learn by teaching
• knowledge sharing
• helps us grow internally

hiring

• hire people who love what they do
• anyone can propose a new role or candidate
• find who has Twitter connections for input
• everyone can see everything, until they are hired

structure

• everyone can access all projects
• anyone can get involved w/ what interests them
• anyone can propose changes
• story about team dropdown -> PR for Vision Network

• IP agreement posted before it was "ratified"

management

!=

leadership

• convo w/ @mtodd
  • no managers
  • need to convince others to help you
  • no top-down decisions
  • better quality ideas
• "functional anarchy"

trust