Remote-first works extremely well if you have the right people. And fails miserably if you don't Some of my biggest investing wins are in remote-first startups. @Linear being the best example It works for A+ self-starting teams. We're trying to pull that off with @trysunflower↗
Full HQ episode of my interview with @shl. We talk about: * Gumroad's journey and complications of paying thousands of investors dividends (!) * Why Sahil likes to make _everything_ public * What it's like to build with a part-time-only, remote-only workforce And more.↗
My employer @OSSCapital has: — Made ~ 50 investments since late 2018 (nearly 5 years full-time now) 🗃️ — 90% of each dollar went to startups we cold-contacted (no “deal flow”) 🥶 — 100% of our companies are remote first / WFM friendly / mostly devoid of physical offices 💻…↗
Going fully remote was nice, but the real benefit was in going fully asynchronous. Here are a list of the benefits we've seen at @Gumroad: A thread 👇🏽↗
