E31 Building the future of remote work with Remote.com founder Job van der Voort

Sand Hill Road

In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Remote.com founder Job van der Voort about building the future of remote work.

0:00 Intro

00:49 The first two years of Remote

02:19 Preparing for the perfect Storm at Gitlab

06:17 Leaving Gitlab

10:47 Business model

14:10 Legal war chest

15:20 Fintech-payment layer

16:20 SaaS layer

17:52 Pricing

19:47 Competitive landscape

24:12 Seed round

25:42 Series A

28:37 Remote best practices

31:52 Enabling random bump ins

34:07 The remote company handbook or “bible”

35:23 Remote company stack

36:20 Asynchronous vs. synchronous work

40:19 Remote for startups