[callmeed]

Those aren't the options people are referring to on Twitter (at least not in the threads I've seen [0]).

It's about hiring US/Canada based people and not forcing them to relocate. Using Slack, Skype, screen-sharing, co-working spaces, etc. to collaborate and stay on top of everything. The kind of companies you see hiring at: https://weworkremotely.com/

I'm doing it at a great startup now and it's awesome. I've got kids and my wife is in college–I'm not relocating to SF.

Maybe there are intricacies to being in a heavily-funded, high-growth SF startup that prevent this ... I just don't know what they are and PG & sama aren't elaborating on them.

[0] https://twitter.com/sama/status/549053726409768960

[tptacek]

Oh, I think I see. The argument isn't that remote-work makes it easy to hire foreigners without dealing with visas. It's that you don't need to source workers from abroad if you can just source them from Tulsa. Totally valid point!

Thanks. (We're doing a startup from Chicago, with one very, very remote team member.)

[callmeed]

Exactly.

A cursory glance at the HN/YC jobs page shows 1 remote-friendly position out of 20+. Why?

I'll admit, people are probably wrongly ascribing bad intentions to PG's essay and sama's related tweets. But that's what happens when you fail to address the other options.