A book by founders, for founders
REMOTE
FIRST
How to Hire, Manage and Scale Distributed Teams.
Real case studies across cultures, languages and markets.
The thesis
Remote work is not a temporary trend. It is the foundation of the next generation of global companies.
This book is a practical manual for the founders, operators and leaders building companies without borders — covering hiring, culture, evaluation, growth and the small details that compound into a durable distributed organization.
Explore the chaptersChapters
Seven chapters. One distributed playbook.
From sourcing your first international hire to designing the offboarding nobody talks about.
Remote-first companies access global talent, ship faster across time zones, and reduce overhead. This chapter dismantles the assumptions behind the office and reframes work around outcomes, not presence.
Read the full chapterFrom inbound channels to silent outbound, this chapter covers building a global pipeline, calibrating signals across markets, and avoiding the cultural blind spots that wreck remote hiring.
Read the full chapterStructured interviews, paid trial frameworks, async onboarding tracks and the first-30-days checklist that determines whether a remote hire compounds or churns.
How to run monthly check-ins, scorecards and 360-feedback loops that surface signal early, without bureaucratic theatre.
Levels, ladders, compensation bands and the conversations that turn high performers into long-term builders — even when they could be hired anywhere.
Read the full chapterOffsites, async rituals, team weeks, internal demos and the small repeated moments that hold a distributed company together.
How to part ways professionally — protecting the team, the leaver and the brand. The offboarding playbook most companies improvise badly.
The authors
Written by operators, for operators.
Remote First is the work of founders, people leaders and org designers who have built distributed companies in production — together with the collaborators who shaped the project.
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