Founder Fridays: How to Scale to 2,000 People Without Silos with Marcelo Lebre, Co-Founder of Remote
Welcome to Founder Fridays - a Notion founder series - where we sit down with builders who’ve been in the trenches to talk shop - product, design, and the real lessons no one puts on a slide deck. Marcelo Lebre, Co-founder & President of Remote, joins Kathleen Kiang, Notion’s Head of Business Recruiting, to unpack what it really takes to build and scale a global, distributed company. From turning “boring” HR infrastructure into a category-defining platform, to hiring people who genuinely care, to using documentation as the ultimate anti-silo mechanism, Marcelo shares the hard-won lessons behind Remote’s growth to 2,000+ employees worldwide. To learn more about how Notion is supporting startups, please visit: https://ntn.so/founderfridays Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:06 Building Remote’s Foundation 03:22 Scaling Comes Early 04:21 Hiring for Ownership 07:41 Flipping the Interview 10:05 From CTO to COO 11:08 Preventing Remote Silos 12:58 The Tool Stack 14:34 Advice Block 17:18 Face What You Dread 19:57 It’s Supposed to Hurt