Running Remote

Today we are talking to Michael Mizrahi who spent much of his career at Uber, beginning at the startup in New York in 2013 and continuing to build a globally scaled Community Operations organization out of San Francisco through 2018. Now, he is Head of Operations at Levels where he is running business operations, keeping finances in check, and managing people operations and culture initiatives. Michael will share Levels' asynchronous and remote principles which many other startups have learned from.

Steve Hoffman is a 20-year remote leader and a creator of the leading startup accelerator. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. Hoffman is also a venture investor and author of several award-winning books. Outside of the Silicon Valley he is know as Captain Hoff. In this episode we discuss a number of various topics with Steve particularly diving into fostering trust in remote teams.

This week, we are talking to Nacho Rodriguez, the Founder of the repeople coliving and NomadCity conference. Nacho is a well-known innovator in digital nomad space and the ambassador of remote work on Gran Canaria islands. In this episode Nacho talks about one of the first remote work events after the onset of the pandemic.

This week Danny Page is talking to the Running Remote's veteran, Mariano Suarez-Battan who is building an imaginative cloud MURAL recently evaluated at $2B. In this interview, he talks about the company's hypergrowth in the past few years and how remote structure contributed to it.

This week's guest, Forest Key is the CEO of Voodle, who wants to help teams build and share knowledge using short videos.   Forest is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for innovation in UX, video, and storytelling software platforms.    In this interview, he discusses his personal experience in transforming his company into a completely remote environment. He stresses that it is vital to make sure there is equity - making sure that workers are provided with the tools they need to do their jobs properly, wherever they are.

This week, our guest is Karen Mangia, vice president of Customer and Market Insights at Salesforce. Karen published two books in 2020, “Listen Up: How to Tune in to Customers” and “Working from Home: Making the New Normal work for you.”   In this podcast, Karen discusses various factors in determining policy regarding working remotely, including how the employer can collaborate with employees in creating a community to focus on common goals.

A well-known name in Running Remote circles and a star from our Running Remote event in November 2020, our guest today is co-founder and CEO of CoScreen, Till Pieper. The winner of the 2020 Hottest Remote Startup contest, CoScreen helps coworkers be more efficient, reduce misunderstandings, and, most importantly, get on the same page. In this episode, we talk about what the founders were trying to accomplish by designing their software and its development process. We also talk about lessons managers can learn, the power of deep collaboration, and the future of remote work.  Tune in to find out how fostering remote relationships can make the newly remote world work more smoothly.

This week, we’re happy to have one of the more reputable names in the remote work world as our guest. Ho Yin Cheung is the founder and CEO of Remo, the virtual event platform. In this episode, we talk about Remo’s past, how it came to pivot to what it is today, and its explosive growth in 2020—not just regionally, but also internationally. We go on to touch on a number of different issues that can arise when it comes to scaling remote companies. As Ho Yin is joining us from Taiwan, we use this opportunity to talk about the differences in the pandemic between Asia and the West.  Diversity in thought and approach can build better products. Tune in to find out what it means to build a truly cross-cultural team.

Our guest this week, talking to us all the way from India, is Rahul Aggarwal, the founder and CEO of the freelance design platform, Designhill. If the future is freelance, Designhill is a company at the forefront of understanding what the future of work is like. In this episode, we talk about how the more than 200,000 designers and artists on Designhill from all over the world are really advancing freelancing globally, how trust in freelancers has evolved over the years, what the importance of cross-cultural breakthroughs for any business is, and what the freelancing gig economy looks like post-pandemic.  Freelancing has exploded over the past few years as trust in the work they provide continues to grow. Tune in to find out more.

With hundreds of millions of people working remotely for the first time, companies want to know if they’re doing this right. Our guest this week, will help you find out if you are. Carlos Escutia joins us from San Diego, California. He’s the CEO and founder of Growrk Remote, which launched operations in January, offering smart home office management for remote teams.  In this episode, we talk about issues that are popping up with the home workplace, what companies should be considered in terms of remote employee safety and workers’ compensation, and how companies can build solutions. Tune in to learn how to take care of your employees and prioritize them—they’re your greatest asset.