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Starting a remote-first and multicultural-first company!

Guillaume Montard on September 06, 2019

This post was originally published on our blog, where we usually write about startups, remote and APIs! I've started a remote-first company 18 mon...
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Guillaume Montard

Hello Phil,

Good question! Actually our team is all located in Europe for now, with less than 1-hour difference between everyone.

That said, in my previous venture I had a large team spread across multiple locations in the US, Europe and India, managing timezone was a nightmare. We did exactly what you mention, we basically applied the Spotify model with timezone co-located teams.

This is where chapter-leader are critical as well as organizing off-sites.