Go read Ronald Coase's "The nature of the firm". And if your work _can_ be structured to minimize the transaction costs, you might as well go to a low-wage country rather than mess with a remote, medium-wage team. I worked with one company that had all of their engineering team in Pakistan. The SV-based VP engineering never saw his team face-to-face. They had a huge cost advantage.
avip|7 years ago