Where Your Team Works Matters Less Than Ever

As the author of a book on remote teams, ex-founder, and startup community activist I’d like to suggest that work location is much less important than it was before the pandemic.

Here's why:

Being together physically does matter, if it’s critical that you want a small team to go super fast.
If you want to scale, however, the ability to work asynchronously starts to matter a lot more.
You can have the best of both worlds by meeting together physically once a month or once a quarter,
Allow your team members the luxury of defining where and how they want to work, so that they can design a work environment that raises their personal productivity.
It's not only a cost thing. Look outside of San Fran, NYC and London, especially for great developers who don’t want to or can’t live in that kind of environment.

And scale quickly by creating internal worklows and using tools that are asynchronous (and therefore easy to scale up and down as needed).