Inside Remote

Episode 6: Colin Nederkoorn on lessons building remote companies

Episode Summary

In this episode Colin shares his lessons on building and managing remote company and what he learned on his way to make Customer.io a remote company.

Episode Notes

On this episode Colin Nederkoorn shares lessons on building remote company. Colin is a CEO of company called Customer.io where they help companies automated communication with customers. This week we cover lessons from building and running a remote team.

In this episode we cover following topics:

• Lessons on building a remote company
• Transformation into remote company
• Difficulties explaining running remote back in the days
• Getting people to socialize on remote teams
• Issues when hiring remote talent
• Diversity advantage in remote teams

Notes and links:

• Customer.io
• Slack
• Zoom
• Weworkremotely
• Disagree and Commit
• Jeff Bezos Letters
• High Output Management

Colin Nederkoorn

• Customer.io
• Website
• Twitter

Credits:

• Gramatik for intro music