– How do you feel
about remote workers? – I’m not into it. Now it is a massively proven
successful way to go about doing business. I wish my homie Jason Fried,
the founder of 37 signals, was sitting here he’d punch me
directly in the mouth and he would be right because for Jason
Fried and DHH the way they built their company or Matt Mullenweg
who’s built a billion-dollar company, Automattic WordPress
they have built it on absolute only remote
operators and employees. I, for me, self-awareness,
Gary Vaynerchuk, don’t like it. I don’t like having
satellite offices. I don’t like it. I want to be very hands-on. I’m very touchy-feely. I scale and build my business by walking by people’s
desks and can feel their. I literally sometimes go to the
bathroom to take a piss, right, walk walk by somebody don’t like
it way the felt and as I’m going to take a piss text my HR
company I’m like I need to see Rick for five minutes. That’s literally how
I built my company. That’s how I build my companies. I’m built on EQ. It’s funny when everyone said
social media was like not human and it’s bad the reason why so
optimistic about social media or technology is technology’s a
gateway drug to human connection. I know it because I only
live on human connection. I just use that stuff to scale. Without social media and
technology there wouldn’t have been one person on the corner
of that street last night, let alone 300. I used it to have the three and
half hours I had with all of you last night one by one
by one because of it. It was the enabler. Now, remote workers can do that
but for me to be successful I really like the idea
of having it together. Team dynamics. I’m a guy that loves sports. Clearly I like team dynamics. It’s not for me. I don’t like when people work
from, we had to force people to work from home for a year
because we’re going so fast and we ran out of space and fire
codes and everything and it was the worst year.
I hated it. I don’t feel that people are
productive, I don’t give a (censored) what you
say I don’t believe you. (audience laughter)
And so I don’t like it. And so it’s not for me as an
operator to run a company for me. But for a lot of
people it could be great. I will never build a company
that has remote employees at scale ever.
It will never happen. – [Ed] Thank you.
– Cool, you got it. (applause)