Join Immad Akhund and Alex Bouaziz, Co-founder and CEO at Deel, for a discussion on building and managing remote teams.

This conversation was filmed live on Zoom with questions from the audience:

00:00:30: How many people work at Deel and where are they working from?

00:00:45: What does Deel do? What made you start this company?

00:03:15: Who is Deel for? Companies from anywhere can use it?

00:03:50: How do you create serendipity and connections between coworkers? What processes do you use to solve those problems?

00:07:30: Communicating synchronously vs asynchronously

00:07:56: What specific tools do you use to manage internal communications?

00:08:25: How do you onboard remotely to ensure a good experience for new hires?

00:09:53: How has your documentation changed to account for remote work?

00:10:12: What are your plans for in-person offices after COVID?

00:12:25: How is Deel innovating differently from other competitors in the global payroll and compliance space?

00:14:20: Hiring contractors vs employees internationally global

00:17:30: What changes have you made to your hiring practices? Do you skew more towards senior hires since they'll be working remotely?

00:18:40: How are you thinking about cost of living and salary adjustments?

00:23:13: Possible salary supression in specific geographies

00:23:50: Remote performance reviews and the best tools to manage them

00:25:05: Weekly cadence for scrums, all hands, and weekly meetings

00:27:55: What are the biggest mistakes you've made in running a remote team?

00:31:30: What is behind Deel's hyper growth?

00:35:30: What are some fun, non-work related things you do to keep the team engaged?

00:36:50: Do you think about equity similarly to salary in terms of cost of living adjustments?

00:37:14: Tips for reference checks

00:38:13: If someone's not performing well, how do you work with employees on that?

00:39:14: How do you judge if the team is motivated and doing ok during the pandemic?

00:41:38: What happens next? Will things reset or is remote work more permanent post-pandemic?

About the speakers:

Alex Bouaziz, Deel Co-founder and CEO: Alex Bouaziz is the co-founder and CEO at Deel, a YC and A16Z-backed company building global payroll and compliance for international teams. Prior to founding Deel, Alex Bouaziz was Founding Partner at Sarona Ventures and Co-founder at Lifeslice, a mobile app for creating collaborative videos.

Immad Akhund, Mercury Founder and CEO: Immad Akhund is the co-founder and CEO at Mercury, a tech company building banking for startups. Prior to founding Mercury, Immad was the CEO and co-founder at Heyzap, a mobile developer tools company, which sold for $45m in 2016. He is an active investor in Silicon Valley and has invested in 100+ seed-stage startups including Airtable, Substack, and Rappi.

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