Webinar | Real Talk with Legendary Remote Work CEOs on Hiring, Culture, and Connection
Real Talk with Legendary Remote Work CEOs on Hiring, Culture, and Connection
Date: Thursday, Aug 27, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET
About this virtual event
It's been six years since Covid sent everyone home, and how we work is still one of the biggest open questions in business. Meanwhile, some of the most successful distributed companies in the world settled it long ago. They never had an office to begin with.
The real question isn't whether remote work can succeed. It's what the companies doing it well know that everyone else doesn't.
Some companies are calling everyone back five days a week. Others are fully remote and async. Most are stuck in between, unsure if their distributed setup is a strategy or just a habit left over from 2021.
Our panelists:
Job van der Voort
CEO & Co-founder at Remote
Job is the CEO and co-founder of Remote, the platform that helps companies hire, pay, and manage employees anywhere in the world. Before Remote, he was VP of Product at GitLab, one of the largest all-remote companies ever built, and before tech he was a neuroscientist. Remote has been fully distributed since day one, so Job runs a global team using the same playbook his customers do.
Matt Mullenweg
Founder & CEO at Automattic
Matt is the co-founder of WordPress, the platform behind more than 40% of the web, and the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Tumblr. Automattic has operated without a headquarters since 2005, with over 1,700 employees around the world. Matt has spent two decades refining how distributed teams communicate, make decisions, and stay connected, including flying the entire company in for its annual Grand Meetup.
In this live session, we'll get into what actually makes distributed companies run. What's working, what's not, and what these two would tell any leader managing a team they don't see every day.
Here's what we'll cover (subject to change)
Welcome and intros
The vantage point: what leading a distributed company actually looks like in 2026
What's working: hiring, onboarding, and building culture when there's no office
Reality vs. hype: where distributed work breaks down and how the best teams fix it
Why the strongest remote companies are the most intentional about in-person time
Audience Q&A
Close + resource share
One thing both of these companies figured out early: the less often your team shares a room, the more those moments matter. The best distributed companies don't skip in-person time. They plan it deliberately.
It's a candid conversation with two people who have been building this way for a combined 25+ years.
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