[mattmanser]

To be frank, if he spent $100k figuring it out and still hasn't got it right, I hope you are ignoring everything he said.

That he's wasted so much money and now suddenly thinks everyone should be in the same office is a sign he's probably a terrible project manager. Probably.

[kator]

No he has a great working product that would have cost him 10x to build but certainly much of the $100k was used learning how to get the right team assembled and work with them to get them productive.

He is looking to get a really small core team in a small face-to-face space to accelerate their work. It's about speeding up iteration cycles and anyone who has worked on distributed teams know the challenges of not being in the same room with each other. That said I've had success with distributed teams but I've yet to see one loop through cycles as quickly as one that is in the same physical space on a regular basis. I'm not saying it can't be done, just in my time and experiences I've not seen a distributed team out pace a team that is in physical locality to each other on a regular basis.