We are pleased to announce the Wing Remote Stack Summit, an invitation-only meeting for tech founders and corporate executives to examine the new era of remote and hybrid work.
Remote work has jumped from 3% to 60% of the U.S. workforce. Managing and building organizations and processes at this scale is unprecedented. No one yet knows how long the pandemic-driven shift will last or what the next normal will look like.
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Summit speakers
The summit will convene founders and executives with firsthand experience scaling remote-first organizations:
- Sid Sijbrandij, Co-founder and CEO, GitLab
- Wade Foster, Co-founder and CEO, Zapier
- Amit Bendov, Co-founder and CEO, Gong
- Scott Farquhar, Co-founder and Co-CEO, Atlassian
GitLab and Zapier have been all-remote since their founding and are recognized authorities in remote best practices. GitLab is the world’'s largest all-remote company with 1,300 employees across 65+ countries. The company has published The Remote Playbook and The Remote Work Foundation. Zapier has more than 300 employees across 28 countries and 17 time zones and has published The Remote Work Report and The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work.
Gong and Atlassian are remote stack leaders in sales and engineering, respectively. Gong's revenue intelligence software increased 3x in revenues during the first half of 2020. The company raised $200 million at a $2.2 billion valuation in August 2020. Atlassian’'s project management and collaboration tools saw a 150% increase in free-tier sign-ups, and the company announced last month that its 5,000 employees can work from home forever.
GitLab, Zapier, and Gong are in the Enterprise Tech 30, the annual list of the most promising private companies in enterprise technology. Atlassian is a public company with $40+ billion market cap.
Discussion topics
The summit will convene nearly 300 founders and executives. Based on advance feedback, culture was by far the most requested discussion topic (15% of respondents), followed by return-to-work, sales, security, leadership, communication, and inclusion. Illustrative questions include:
- How do companies create belonging, one of the most critical aspects of culture, in a remote environment?
- What parts of the stack, if any, will be wholly new in the new era of remote work?
- How do executives build strong
cC-level customer relationships that are not initiated in-person? - How many scenarios did companies with offices model out for return-to-work?
- What can companies do to replace the lost trust, interaction, and innovation without in-person employee meetings?
- Should remote work productivity be measured with more data collection of employee activity?
- How should companies adjust compensation for employees who move out of state?
- How do companies enable thorough documentation without creating documentation bloat?
- Are some personality types better suited for remote work than others?
- How do companies ensure employees with diverse backgrounds are given equal growth opportunities in a remote work world?
Wing later surveyed 303 startups on the next-level issues in remote and hybrid company-building. Read the Wing Founder Survey: Remote, What's Next.
How to participate
To learn more about the Wing Remote Stack Summit and other events, visit wing.vc or explore other Wing events.
The Wing Remote Stack Summit brought together four CEOs who have built or adopted remote-first practices at scale. Their companies represent a cross-section of the remote stack: GitLab and Zapier as all-remote pioneers, Gong as a remote sales leader, and Atlassian as a collaboration infrastructure provider. The questions raised by the nearly 300 participants — from building belonging in distributed teams to adjusting compensation for out-of-state employees — reflect the operational challenges that will define the next era of distributed work.
As disclosure, Gong is a Wing portfolio company.
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