In-person conversations lead to innovation, especially for earlystage
startups where the strategy is likely to change three times
between 9am and 5pm, and the best work is often done by a
core team after midnight over late-night pizza delivery. Success
requires moving fast and pivoting even faster, in a race to find
product/market fit before the money runs out. Often there is
precious little time to send thoughtful updates to far-flung
employees or account for multiple time zones. Look at the office
layout of early-stage startups and often you won’t even find desks
separated. Instead, the whole team sits around one large table
so they can all hear every conversation and informally stay on
the same—fast moving—page