What is the long tail of remote work? Ian Livingstone - Cofounder of Dropout Labs

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Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. Today I interviewed Ian Livingston. He is the co founder and VP of engineering of a company called Dropout Labs. This interview was very interesting because I've done a lot of episodes on remote work, including the one with the CEO of GitLab, Sid and Natalie Nagel from Wildbit, who's been doing remote work since 2001. And this was really interesting, this one, because we were able to talk about that subject within the context of a new series I'm doing, which you might have already become aware of, which is the rise of startup ecosystems and global entrepreneurship around the world. And the main interesting tidbit I got out of this interview was that there's a long tail of companies and Ian and some other people, Dropout Labs are living in Halifax, Canada. And there's in this long tail of the. In their hardcore engineering in a specific niche of cyber data and how to work with sensitive data in a machine learning way. So they're in this small place and then they need access to talent and there's no talent that they need in that specific location. So they found other people around the world who they need. And so there's this long tail for remote work that remote work for startups in particular really works. And then that's going to be mixed with what I'm also going into, which is that there are large urban centers. I first got onto this, this unique insight from Tyler Willis, who lives in Denver and started a company there. And there's going to be large urban centers around the world as well that also become hubs for this entrepreneurial activity. And so we've got Silicon Valley, which will remain dominant relatively. We've got the rise of these urban centers around the world. And then further out on this long tail where you have these really specific companies that are doing deep tech and specific things that can be distributed. And also another interesting tidbit I got on this is that biology is now mostly computational and I learned this on the episode I just published yesterday with Torsten Coland is that most of this is being done in silico, as he says, so on silicone chips, most of biology is doing that. So even biology companies can be distributed in this way as well. So there's all this really interesting stuff and I am really excited to get into it. As you may know, I'm going to be moving to Colombia and I'm going to be getting my Spanish good enough to start doing a lot more interviews in Spanish and start getting this from a different language angle as well. And if you're interested in that, please find us on itunes by searching for Crazy Wisdom. Be very humbled if you were to leave us a review if you find this information useful and effective and informational. I've been doing this now for two years. I love doing it. I've done God Might be in the 170, 180 interview range. And this next month I have about 30 more interviews scheduled. So I'm creating a lot and I hope you guys are finding it as valuable as I am. And so if you are, yeah, please find me on twitteruartalsopiii. I'd love to hear what you think personally. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest today is Ian Livingston. He is the co founder and VP of engineering at Dropout Labs and really excited to have you on the show.