Remote work is not just online collaboration; it’s turning companies into software. The evolution of remote work from decade to decade has been exponential. Remote work has improved exponentially since 1990, and in-person work has stayed about the same. This leads to a growing

It seems to me that Openai alone is recentralizing startups to the San Francisco Bay Area in a big way. In the last week across a few events, I have talked to people building ais, hosting ai tools, and building ai tools, none of which were available online yet. A friend hosting

Is this path extremely difficult? Yes. But it is also worth it, and I am confident it is possible.

And over 10 years, we will grow from 100,000 customers to 1 million in 2025, to 10 million in 2027, to 100 million in 2029, to 1 billion members in 2031.

Finally, we create a full membership that not only has all the benefits of a social safety net, but also the mobility services and practical benefits that come with a passport and membership in the first internet country.

Later, they might buy SafetyWing membership as a bundle product, which includes everything that make up a social safety net on the internet. As we grow, we use the money we earn to invest in the next level of scale.

Remote workers and digital nomads buy our health insurance, and later, when we launch more products, they might also add remote retirement, remote doctor, income protection, disability, and so on.

The ideal path goes something like this: In the year ahead, we continue the growth path we are currently on, growing 3x year over year.

We now have to figure out how to deliver the services countries perform today, like their social safety net, only this time we have to make it great. And this is ultimately why we need to succeed at @SafetyWing.

While we are building this new order, we might as well make it great this time. Internet countries will not be like today’s countries, because membership will be voluntary. They will be more like products.

In short, we need to create the first country on the internet. There will come a time when a great incentive against war will be that many citizens on each side of the border are members of the same internet country.

But the Internet also brings great hope. The place we hope we can get to, is one where we use the internet to come together as a human species, with a shared purpose and values. Where we use the internet for good, instead of tearing each other apart.

Given the weapons we have, conflicts are much more consequential than they used to be. It is not crazy today that some people worry about whether the path we’re on might lead us down a path of existential risk for all of humanity

In this fog of uncertainty about the state of the world, the potential for conflict both within societies and between them increases.

What happens if we do nothing about this vacuum? I predict an unprecedented period of chaos. Countries will convulse as their citizens become increasingly frustrated that the institutions they put their trust in no longer work as promised.

This means that the infrastructure and systems we have built will stop working. Like, who is responsible for digital nomads? Is it their country of origin or the place they are currently at? What about a remote company employee, the company origin or the employee location?

The world we live in is changing. We are entering the final and most impactful part of the transition to the internet age, and as with all big transitions, we will enter into a period of chaos.

Who is responsible for the remote workforce? Is it their place of residence, or where the company HQ is based? (1/16)

At the end of their story you already know how they unfold, and you will not be able to hire neither Elon Musk or Sam Altman at the end of their career - but you might at the beginning.

I hire for potential, not for experience. People with high potential and low experience is how you can get the best in the world.