Thread by @patio11

Alex and I worked together on Stripe Atlas, and I’m thrilled that his next adventure is in helping companies hire remotely. (I am a tiny investor.)

https://twitter.com/alexkehayias/status/1483839739551633409

If you haven’t ever had the experience of hiring your first person in a new state it is *so unbelievably bad* that it results in companies keeping lists of states that they can hire in, states that they could hire in given a superstar, and states where absolutely not no way.

As an example, VaccinateCA, a relatively tiny non-profit, had almost everyone in California but with two very effective people in two other states.

I spent about as much time on regulatory compliance for them as I spent on hiring our first 10 employees combined.

And now a year later I’m still on the hook for “No we’re no longer in business. No we don’t employ anyone in your state; our one employee separated 6 months ago. No I will not have a 2022 sales tax filing. No we already resigned our foreign qualification. No we had no revenue…”

Another thing I think is a longer term opportunity: no individual company hiring remotely gets a seat at the table with authorities in designing their policy.

But if Mosey can act as a focal point for their needs, and say “Our customers created 2k jobs in your district”…

… then there is a way to actually leverage company to get policy to *change* in a direction which is better for *all* similarly situated employees and employers.