This episode of Hard Mode features the founders of Float: CEO Glenn Rogers & CTO Lars Gelfan.

Float brings the most powerful set of resource management features together in one place to make scheduling your team’s time faster, easier, and more efficient. Built for teams big and small across all industries, the world’s top companies rely on Float to manage their resources more efficiently and deliver great work.

We talk about how Float manage a globally distributed & remote-first team, how they develop the features for 4000+ teams worldwide to use & love their platform and dive into the particulars of being self-funded since 2012, growing, and profitable.

Talking points:

• Creating a fully remote global company, born of solving a specific problem
• Moving Float from side project to full time thing
• 4000 teams across the globe use Float!
• Being remote-first from day one
• Changes in the profile of employees enquiring about working with Float?
• Started off creating something simple that met your needs
• Some hard mode snafu’s
• How to know your co-founder when working in a remote-first team
• Building the company that the co-founders always wanted to work for

Links:

• Float.com
• Float - Best Work Life Blog
• AirBnB
• Bootstrappers.com - Does a Startup Need Funding to Be Successful? This Founder Says No
• NASA
• Real Madrid Football Club

Online:

www.float.com

Float 'Best Work Life' Blog: www.float.com/blog

Float on Twitter: @float

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This episode was hosted by Garry Williams: @gwilliamsALTS