[ryanSrich]

I highly suspect that it's a consequence of being a YC company. The president of YC has even publicly denounced allowing remote work.

> As a side note, avoid remote employees in the early days. As a culture is still gelling, it’s important to have everyone in the same building. [1]

1. http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire

[bryanh]

Actually, I think truly remote teams are just rare regardless of affiliation - we're YC, 20 employees, and only hire remote for all the reasons outlined in this thread and others.

[lsaferite]

Seems like setting yourself up to have an 'everyone is remote' culture at that point in time would make the most sense.

[ryanSrich]

That makes the most sense to me as well. If you're planning on having a distributed team, doing it early on is the best, and perhaps the only, time to do it.