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On March 12th 2020 the world changed.In the 15 months since remote work has accelerated 15 years into the future. Where prior to the pandemic only 3% of the US workforce worked remotely full-time, after the pandemic 10X that number will. In number terms the change is enormous. 3-4M

Today is an important day for Firstbase and all of us personally. We are announcing a $2M Series Seed led by David Goldberg at Alpaca and a $13M Series A led by David Ulevitch at A16Z. Joining A16Z and Alpaca, are Mike Cardamone and James Murphy (Acceleprise), Karen Page (GP

Over the last 3 years, we've spoken to 100+ of the leading remote-first companies on the planet These are the 20 lessons they taught us about how to build a great remote team 1. ✍️ Documentation: documentation is the unspoken superpower of remote teams The most successful remote companies write down

Every company that operated from an office pre-Covid — who has managed to continue operating effectively while forced to work remotely during a global pandemic — will be forced to become a Remote-First organization. If they don’t they will not survive the 2030's This is a replay of eCommerce vs. physical

Companies who can't operate remotely are in troubleCovid-19 has highlighted the lack of capacity most companies have for remote work. This will be viewed as an existential threat to businesses and every board will push their companies towards developing a strategy to cope with any future situation immediately. The reason

I'm so passionate about remote work because of everything it has given me. Time, opportunity, happiness and freedom.The chance to let my daughters know their father far better than they otherwise would have. Freedom to drop and pick them up from school, attend events without having to get permission

Companies who focussed on experience 10 years ago replaced every company that didn’t. Companies that provide a great remote work experience will beat every company who doesn’t in 10 years. The reason is incredibly simple: experience, culture and human connection. ExperienceApple, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, and Google have dominated

Remote work is the most important workplace innovation in history. It will deliver the largest quality of life increase across the next decade and help companies become far more effective and efficient.Failing to adapt could destroy themCurrent events have highlighted this and accelerated the need for companies to have

Remote work isn’t a new way of workingRemote work is a new way of livingUnshackling people from sitting in a pollution emitting metal box for 2 hours a day commuting to a distraction factory adult kids club where you waste your days not doing anything and padding out an

Remote work has accelerated 10 years in 10 days. Companies are discovering they lack the capacity for remote work. Minimum table stakes for great remote work: messaging, video and physical tools. 1. MessagingTo operate effectively as a team everyone needs to be on the same page. Messaging is a basic

The only things that could pull people back to the office is the ego of bad middle manager scared of losing controlMillions of workers are experiencing the life-changing benefits of organizing work around your life rather than the other way around. This flexibility has come with certain caveats. Many of

Remote work is the most important workplace innovation in history. It will deliver the largest quality of life increase across the next decade and help companies become far more effective and efficient.Failing to adapt could destroy themCurrent events have highlighted this and accelerated the need for companies to have

The ongoing situation has accelerated remote work 10 years in 5 weeksNow that workers have experienced the benefits of remote work it's going to be incredibly difficult to put the genie back in the bottle. They know they can operate more efficiently and effectively from home. Collaboration on Zoom has

There are 255 million desk jobs globally Any of them could be done remotelyA majority of them will be by 2030That doesn't mean that every job will be remote, it means that any job that can be done remotely and isn't service-based or location-dependent, will be. Workers will be given

Companies who can't operate remotely are in troubleCovid-19 has highlighted the lack of capacity most companies have for remote work. This will be viewed as an existential threat to businesses and every board will push their companies towards developing a strategy to cope with any future situation immediately. The reason

I'm so passionate about remote work because of everything it has given me. Time, opportunity, happiness and freedom.The chance to let my daughters know their father far better than they otherwise would have. Freedom to drop and pick them up from school, attend events without having to get permission

Companies who focussed on experience 10 years ago replaced every company that didn’t. Companies that provide a great remote work experience will beat every company who doesn’t in 10 years. The reason is incredibly simple: experience, culture and human connection. ExperienceApple, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, and Google have dominated

Remote work is the most important workplace innovation in history. It will deliver the largest quality of life increase across the next decade and help companies become far more effective and efficient.Failing to adapt could destroy themCurrent events have highlighted this and accelerated the need for companies to have

Remote work isn’t a new way of workingRemote work is a new way of livingUnshackling people from sitting in a pollution emitting metal box for 2 hours a day commuting to a distraction factory adult kids club where you waste your days not doing anything and padding out an

Remote work will deliver the biggest quality of life gains of the 2020s. Millions of people will transition from organizing their lives around work to organizing work around their lives. This is inevitable and will happen rapidly. The benefits to workers and companies are so great that returning to the

Companies who adopted technology 20 years ago replaced every company that didn’t. Companies that adopt remote working will replace every company that doesn’t. The reason is incredibly simple: talent and efficiency. TalentUnless you are Google, Amazon, Facebook or Microsoft remote teams will be far more talented than any

I thought the rise of remote work would happen on the backs of great talent leveraging their power to demand more flexible opportunities as a condition of employment. My rationale was that companies didn't know if remote work worked. They were reluctant to try something new which they had no

Table stakes for doing great work are the right tools and equipment. Everybody know this, it's the reason everything is provided for you in an office. Without those things, you won't be as safe, comfortable, or productive as you should be. Has your company given you those things at home?

Be the best workplace on the planetThat is our most important value; our stake in the ground. Everything else falls beneath that banner. I don’t care about creating another company which is the best place in the world for a select few. Nor do I have any desire to