Hi and welcome to the A16Z podcast I'm Doss and in today's episode

Jason Warner the CEO of GitHub talks with A16Z general partner David Yulevich

about the best and worst practices of remote development and more broadly remote work.

Shelter and place orders have more companies making the move to remote faster than ever.

So is this our new normal and is it the future of work? In this hallway

style jam, the two discussed the tools and strategies for communication and alignment,

what does and doesn't work, from demos to burn down charts,

and end on some reflections given the current crisis.

They begin, however, by talking about where location does,

or maybe we should say, doesn't come in.

I've been a remote executive now for just over 10 years,

and I myself have never lived in San Francisco.

I wonder how many people list their location on LinkedIn as the San Francisco Bay Area,

but don't actually live here. I'm sure it overcomes the Silicon Valley bubble bias of everyone having to be here,

which I guess is what we're talking about today.

I think my career would look very different if I didn't put San Francisco on it at one point.

That's really interesting.

I wonder if that's going to change in the future.

I hope it does.

I really do. You can get more efficiencies in your business. You can have better access to talent. And Silicon Valley has a bias towards them being the best of the best.

But the world has moved on from that.

And I think what you're going to find, too,

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