Episode 616 | An 8-Figure SaaS Founder's Approach to Remote Work

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In episode 616, Rob Walling chats with Liam Martin, the co-founder of Time Doctor and author of the new book, “Running Remote: Master the Lessons from the World’s Most Successful Remote Work Pioneers.” We dig into the fundamentals of asynchronous communication, how to do remote work better, and some surprises they saw during the pandemic. Episode Sponsor Hiring developers has been tough for years, but it is even tougher these days. Lemon.io is on a mission to make the process of hiring an experienced developer or even an entire team easier. They only have experienced developers on their marketplace, and each one is hand-vetted. It is virtually risk-free as they’ll guarantee a replacement in 48 hours if something goes wrong. Find your perfect developer or a team with Lemon.io. You can also claim a special discount for our podcast fans. Visit lemon.io/startups to receive a 15% discount for the first 4 weeks of work with a developer. Topics we cover: [2:46] What Liam has learned running Time Doctor for the past 12 years [6:23] Can extroverts thrive long-term in a remote work environment? [11:14] Liam’s approach to metrics and KPIs for engineering teams [18:23] Why remote companies that move faster collaborate less [21:31] How far can you take async communication in a remote team [24:29] Combating isolation on remote teams Links from the Show: Liam Martin (@LiamRemote) I Twitter Running Remote Book Time Doctor Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World MicroConf Youtube Channel If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you. Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

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0:00.0	Welcome back. Startups for the rest of us. I'm your host, Rob Walling. Today I talk with Liam
0:04.1	Martin, the author of Running Remote, Master the Lessons from the World's Most Successful Remote
0:08.7	Work Pioneers. And in this episode, we don't dig into the basics of remote work or try to
0:13.1	convince you about the benefits of it. This is not a podcast for Fortune 500 managers. It's a podcast
0:19.0	for bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped SaaS founders who
0:21.5	want to build amazing companies. And if you're listening to this, you probably already know the
0:25.1	value of remote work. You've likely been doing it yourself for years, or at least if you have a
0:30.5	company, have set it up that way because as bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped founders,
0:34.3	that's just something we have to do, right? Oftentimes we can't afford an office or we can't afford to hire in our local cities because we don't have the money to do it. And so
0:42.5	Liam and I really dig in to not the fundamentals of remote work, but we talk about asynchronous
0:47.7	communication, we talk about how to do remote work better, some surprises that we saw during COVID.
0:53.3	It's a good conversation. But before we dive in,
0:55.5	I want to let you know we have 930 worldwide ratings and I want to get to a thousand. This is
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1:07.1	Wish I had found this podcast earlier. It's so practical and relatable as a bootstrapped entrepreneur.
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1:14.4	but it's also great to feel part of a community
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1:19.3	Join DeWill 3X and leave a review.
1:21.9	And in fact, you don't even have to type all that.
1:23.9	You can just go in, hit the five-star rating. I would love to put 70 more on the docket
1:29.5	in Apple Podcasts for startup to the rest of us and hit 1,000 ratings. There are so few shows
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