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[00:05] Welcome Andrea Loubier to Asia Tech Podcast Stories, hosted by Graham D Brown

[00:37] Andrea talks about her current location of Canggu, Bali and the coworking scene in Bali

[03:42] Why did Andrea choose Indonesia as a base?

[06:47] Graham reminisces his experiences backpacking in Indonesia back in 1994

[10:11] All about Mailbird, an email management app created by Andrea

[14:24] The different roles played by the three creators of Mailbird and the story of how the co-founders met

[16:48] The turning point - when did Andrea know that it was time to pack her bags and move to Bali?

[18:22] Why did Andrea choose Bali instead of the Silicon Valley as a place to start her company?

[20:32] Graham shares an anecdote about a Google employee who commuted from Bend Oregon to San Franscisco to save costs

[22:56] Cultural fit when hiring - if you don\'t limit your hiring pool to

one location, you open up doors to amazing talent

[24:53] The lack of a pervasive start-up culture in Bali and how that impacts Andrea\'s experience of running a business

[26:16] Is the idyllic tropical island vibe dulling Andrea\'s aggressive entrepreneurial drive?

[28:44] Andrea\'s experience of time management as a digital nomad

[30:40] The scalability of a remote company and Andrea\'s transition plans to help with that

[33:16] The customer happiness team at Mailbird and how it works

[38:23] What kind of qualities does Andrea look for when recruiting new team members? From a cultural fit interview, skills test, final interview to a 3 month probationary period

[42:00] The challenges of hiring remotely and how Andrea deals with them

[44:35] If money is not a deciding factor, would Andrea still choose to have a remote and distributed team?

[47:08] Find out more about Andrea on Googleplus, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or email her [email protected]