from Paul Graham | by Paul Graham

Before Covid, visiting startups meant visiting offices full of midcentury modern furniture in buildings near Market Street. Now it means visiting an apartment containing a baby, a dog, and 6 coworkers who haven't met in person for a month.

The new model startup seems to be just as productive. If so, how strange to think that this wildly different but apparently equivalent model was there all along, unseen by almost everyone except a few weirdos like GitLab.