Running Remote - Building & Scaling Your Remote Team

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.

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.

Our guest this week is Sondre Rasch, co-founder and CEO of SafetyWing. SafetyWing offers travel, medical, and health insurance to nomads and remote companies around the world.

Sondre and his team are innovators in the digital nomad space, offering global insurance to remote workers.

In this episode, we talk about how the pandemic has affected their customers and nomads in general, how their product roadmap has evolved over time, and the importance of infrastructure in the remote world.

Tune in to learn about the potential of remote work, Sondre’s journey, and what he and his company are doing for remote work.

On the Running Remote podcast, we’ve talked to individuals from so many different areas of business. But, this is our first conversation with a finance nerd.

Our guest this week is Wayne Richard, COO of Bean Ninjas, a Xero bookkeeping business for online businesses based in Tucson, Arizona. He jumped from a corporate role to building a company that works on asynchronous collaboration.

In this episode, we talk about what financial support a small company needs, how Bean Ninjas began, what the recession looks like, and how remote work integrates with raising a family of five.

Tune in to learn more about the financial side of remote work while Wayne shares his experience making it all work.

This week, our guest is a worthy adversary, if you will, and a podcast host himself, Aydin Mirzaee, the host of the Supermanagers Podcast.

More importantly, he’s focused on changing how companies conduct meetings worldwide via his company, Fellow.app, where he’s the CEO and co-founder.

In this episode, we talk about what a supermanager is, what a high-performing team is (and how they’re created), and how meetings should and can run. 

Things are changing, so we need to look around and re-adjust to our surroundings. Tune in to learn about the future of meetings.

Our guests this week are marketing wizards from the mid-west, business partners as well as life partners - Mike Grinberg and Gaby Israel Grinberg.

Mike and Gaby are the co-founders of Proofpoint Marketing - an all remote B2B Digital Marketing Agency.

In this episode, we talk about the ideal home setup for a family working from home, how to balance personal life and business life, and the transition that the marketing leaders must go through in these days of remote.

Tune in to this episode to learn from this dynamic couple who runs a successful remote business.

This week Danny interviews Liam Martin - co-founder and CMO of Time Doctor and co-organizer of Running Remote Conference. 

They discuss Running Remote’s survival and victory in this emergency situation when all their in-person events were cancelled. 

Running remote has always been able to gather absolute top innovators in the remote work space at their events.

Here's what Liam talks about it in this interview - “That type of access is very, very rare. I remember interviewing Dimitri of GitLab directly for the first Running Remote. And I thought to myself that guy's a billionaire, pretty crazy.”

Listen to this candid conversation as Danny and Liam discuss how the world has changed in 2020 and how remote work has been a key part of this revolution. Also you will enjoy some of Liam’s joyful experiences interviewing billionaires at Running Remote events.

We have a returning guest on our show today - Sahin Boydas, CEO & Founder of Remote Team - an all-in-one Remote OS that powers remote teams operations.

This time, Sahin shares his own fascinating story - from selling a massive technology business in Turkey to arriving in Silicon valley with almost nothing in his pocket. Sahin talks about his last 10 year's experience in the Bay Area and how he sees companies are evolving in the remote age.

Enjoy a high-energy conversation with one of the visionaries in the remote work space.

Daniel Ramsey is the founder and CEO of MyOutDesk, a company with more than 13 years of experience helping CEOs and entrepreneurs around the world grow virtually. In this podcast, he discusses how a blended model can allow you to grow your business, save time, and lower operating costs through virtual solutions.

Sharon Koifman is the founder of DistantJob with more than 15 years of experience in the tech, recruitment, & HR world.

In this podcast, this interesting thinker will discuss the talent side of remote work and how to promote worker creativity and a better quality of life.

Peter Rooney is the chief revenue officer for Canadian Payroll Services. This company was office based until COVID-19 came along and now works 100% remotely itself. In this podcast, Peter talks about the Canadian market in particular and how to make global hiring accessible.

Raj Singh is the co-founder and CEO of Loop Team and has more than 20 years of experience building products. This Silicon Valley veteran sold his last company, Tempo AI, to Salesforce.

This podcast focuses on how to create a remote work environment that facilitates the type of in-person interactions that lead to business growth.