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things in customers hands, yesterday.


### A note on remote-only

Eric worked mostly on web browsers before starting Flutter -- something used
globally by billions of people and built open source by persons from every
corner of the globe. It taught him that there are truly brilliant and motivated
people everywhere. Leading Flutter and Dart (including through pandemic
lockdowns and the resulting work-from-home diaspora) showed him that
remote-first can work and that people can do their best work when you don't care
where they live but rather what they get done. So that's what we're doing at
Shorebird. Hiring the best people, wherever they are.

Remote also has its downsides, clearly. Culture is much harder. How do you
build social experiences at work for those who want it? How do you build a
unified understanding of what the company is (as things inevitably change)
without being in the same room regularly? GitLab and others have written
extensively on these
[challenges](https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/). So we
don't know, but we sure as heck are gonna try. The world is simply too big and
too filled with talented people to limit our hiring to one location.

## Team

* Eric Seidel (@eseidel), Founder & CEO -- Founded Flutter before Shorebird. Was
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