Remote Communication Software, Building an Organization, and Taking Big Swings with Grant Shaddick of Tella
Grant Shaddick of Tella chats with Allan of RemoteCompass.com.
Show notes:
- sometimes, we need more than the basic screen recording tools
- professional video editing tools could be too overwhelming for simpler use cases
- Tella is a collaborative video editor for team communication, educational content, sales, etc
- their product enables remote and asynchronous work
- as an early-stage company, they recognize the value of fostering close relationships among core team members
- while they don’t have an intention to build a co-located team, Grant recognizes the value of spending time in person with teammates
- Grant suggests that it’s ideal to enable asynchronous work for most of the time as long as everyone gets together every week or month
- At an early stage, when playbooks aren’t firm for the founding team, meeting up is more critical
- Small startups take big swings, the kind of moves that are typically decided together by the founding team
- At Tella, half of their work is done asynchronously while the other half is synchronous
- Tools Tella use: Tandem, Notion, Linear (and of course Tella)
- A job is likely being improvised if a core team member is wearing multiple hats (e.g. acting as a UX designer in the morning then a marketer in the afternoon)
- For improvisation-heavy roles, it makes more sense to have synchronous communication
- Heavily defined roles are more suitable for asynchronous communication
- Doing remote work right doesn’t simply mean bringing your workflows from the office to your home
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