Fast-Growing Remote Startups

Re:Fast-Growing Remote Startups by KyleBrandt on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:09PM (#22548503)

I wonder what the criteria is for "startup"? GitHub jumped out to me as maybe not a startup anymore.

Glitch, formally fogcreek is 20 years old... Maybe has employees about the same age as the company :-p

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Re:Fast-Growing Remote Startups by hinkley on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:36PM (#22548824)

Maybe at this point 'startup' = 'tech company' in some people's heads.

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Re:Fast-Growing Remote Startups by itronitron on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:12PM (#22548539)

yeah, neither is Elastic which is a public $6B company

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Re:Fast-Growing Remote Startups by camwoodsum on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:41PM (#22548887)

Hey guys! I created the product so I can answer this one.

You're right that Elastic and Github (and Stripe and Twilio) aren't startups. The list is really just the fastest-growing companies (not necessarily just startups).

This is good feedback. I might clarify this in the text before the table itself.

Even though these companies are big, they're growing fast and I thought it would be helpful to add them.

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Re:Fast-Growing Remote Startups by tasuki on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:16AM (#22554769)

Elastic is marked as "Remote First? No, but heavily remote" - I work at Elastic, and would say Elastic is very much remote-first, though our preferred term is "distributed": https://www.elastic.co/about/distributed

Edit: Also, we're bigger than GitLab! ;)

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Re:Fast-Growing Remote Startups by camwoodsum on Thursday March 12, 2020 @08:33AM (#22556125)

Fixing this now! Thanks for letting me know :)

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Re:Fast-Growing Remote Startups by travisjungroth on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:21PM (#22552248)

Not your fault, you're in the middle of using a messy term. People call Google a startup.

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