Episode 4: Matt Wondra on building new tools for distributed teams

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This time I was talking with Matt Wondra.

Matt is a Product Lead at Happy Tools, company of Automattic. Matt started his career in tech as a developer and after while switched to the role of Product Lead.
This episode Matt shares a lot of interesting things regarding remote work and how they are planning to help other companies operate in distributed way with new set of remote tools.

In this episode we talk about:

How Happy Tools started
How to discuss new work
Learning on how to operate remotely
What can onsite teams learn from remote teams
Optimizing remote work
How to approach hiring

Notes and links:

Matt Wondra

Credits:

Jan Jenko for header photo
Gramatik for intro music

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Episode 4: Matt Wondra on building new tools for distributed teams

Inside Remote

published 6 anni fa

MP3•Pagina principale dell'episodio

This time I was talking with Matt Wondra.

In this episode we talk about:

How Happy Tools started
How to discuss new work
Learning on how to operate remotely
What can onsite teams learn from remote teams
Optimizing remote work
How to approach hiring

Notes and links:

Matt Wondra

Credits:

Jan Jenko for header photo
Gramatik for intro music

13 episodi

#Tech #Careers #Entrepreneur #Business #Inside Remote #Andrej Fodor #Remote Tools #Remote #Remote Work #Company #remotework #Telecommuter #Startup

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