The cofounder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic embarks on a journey to understand the future of work. Having built his own 900-person company with no offices and employees scattered across 68 countries, Mullenweg examines the benefits and challenges of distributed work and recruiting talented people around the globe.
Trailer: A new podcast, 15 years in the making.
Produced by Mark Armstrong and the team at Charts & Leisure: Jason Oberholtzer, Whitney Donaldson, Cole Stryker, and Michael Simonelli. Theme music by Jason Oberholtzer. Cover art by Matt Avery.
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Episode 13: Attorney Lydia X.Z. Brown on Making Work More Accessible
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Episode 11: Stephen Wolfram on 28 years of remote work
Episode 10: Automattic’s Sonal Gupta on communication and chaos.
Episode 9: Author Scott Berkun on how to manage distributed teams with respect.
Episode 8: Automattic’s Cate Huston on how distributed companies can create the conditions that help engineers thrive.
Episode 7: Leadership coach Leo Widrich on how distributed workers can build emotional resilience and stay connected.
Episode 6: Design leader John Maeda on creative collaboration in a distributed context.
Episode 5: Upwork’s Zoe Harte and Han Yuan on managing people and products in a distributed company. Read a transcript.
Episode 4: Mark Armstrong interviews Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg. Read a transcript.
Episode 3: VC Arianna Simpson on Distributed Work and the Blockchain. Read a transcript.
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