Work From Anywhere

The series kicked off with a conversation between Sarah and Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO of Box. Aaron, who’s now experiencing his second recession as a company leader, takes us through their decision-making process as Box has adapted its business strategy and company policies over the years. The company, which offers a cloud storage and data management platform, sees increased relevance as an enabler of the digital workplace in the remote work era. In late May, Box announced employees could work remotely til at least 2021.

David shares his experience leading product development teams at Google, LinkedIn and Groupon. He also lays out his assessment of the current investment landscape as companies compete with both large established enterprises and startups operating in the same sectors.

Okta CEO and co-founder Todd McKinnon, left Salesforce in 2009 to start Okta on the promise of enabling seamless access to SaaS applications. He’s been an outspoken proponent of the more nuanced “dynamic work” rather than remote work, even prior to the pandemic. As more people work “dynamically” in today’s environment, Okta is also seeing increased demand for their products and services. In this epsiode, Todd discusses his decision to launch a startup in uncertain economic times, how that helped him adapt to the current environment, and how he thinks about Okta’s approach to the global talent market in 2020.

Coda CEO and co-founder Shishir Mehrotra talks about Coda’s growth, his favorite remote work use cases, how Coda gradually became distributed, and how he works with Coda co-founder and CTO Alex DeNeui remotely.

Alexander Embiricos, the CEO and co-founder of video workspace startup Remotion, also sat down with Greymatter shortly after the company’s launch to discuss how Remotion is helping remote teams build a culture of talking live.

Stanford University Professor of Economics Nicholas A. Bloom, who has spent decades researching remote work and management practices, dives into the various ways businesses around the world are thinking about returning to the office (or not) after more than a year working remotely.