turbopuffer's remote-first culture: unlimited budget to visit coworkers
DevinLewtan · x · 2026-10-30
Colossus profiles turbopuffer's contrarian remote-first culture: employees span SF, NY, Nashville, France, Germany, Canada, Norway, India and beyond. The team ceremonially recalculates its geographic center with every hire — currently Kirkland Lake, Ontario — and offers an unlimited budget to fly out and visit a coworker, with gatherings dubbed "campfires." The piece also captures the broader Silicon Valley grind: frontier-lab staff missing weddings, ex-offer-holders rueing $100M left on the table, and pre-AI startups losing their shine.
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