Who am I
Founder & CEO
https://smartbnb.io)

Who am I
Launched yesterday 🎉
footshake.com
sales@footshake.com

Let’s start with a secret
remote management hack

How to mute/unmute yourself on Zoom like a pro
• Go to Zoom > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts.
• Tick "Enable Global Shortcut" to Mute/Unmute.
• Map it to any keyboard shortcut you like.
You can now mute/unmute yourself, even if Zoom is
not the selected window.

Managing

Employees don’t leave companies,
they leave their managers.

Employee retention at remote-first
companies is 90%+.

Managing
Recruiting Compensating Onboarding
Meetings 1:1 Morale

Values

Trust & Autonomy

Transparency

Intentionality

Efficiency

Recruiting

Spoiler alert:
nobody recruits today.

- Any CEO (−3000 BC - March 2020)
Recruiting is so hard.

Stripe C-Suite Survey (https://stripe.com/reports/developer-coefficient−2018)
61 percent of C-suite executives believe access to developer
talent is a threat to the success of their business. This threat was
even ranked above capital constraints.

It’s hard in a different way
10210 0.2%applicants
per week
interviews
per week
applicant
success rate

Compensating

Transparent and public

Location: Basecamp vs Gitlab

The reference is Buffer

Onboarding
as-a-service

Written culture
async, timezones

Scalable

Tooling
Async Sync

Manager

Output-driven

Carry context

Document

Protect against burn out

Day to day

You don’t go remote
to have more Zoom calls.
M E E T I N G S

Agenda / Brainstorm / 1 hour max
M E E T I N G S

Embrace the social
M E E T I N G S

No daily standups.
Trust your people.
M E E T I N G S

Weekly 1:1 check-ins (45m/1h)
M E E T I N G S

Weekly reviews
(for each team, for the company)
M E E T I N G S

Care

Create social opportunities

Celebrate, not alienate

Retreats 😭