For this episode, we have Vishal Punwani, CEO and co-founder of Sophya, the Harvard-founded startup where companies of all sizes, go to establish their virtual HQs. Sophya was part of Harvard iLab’s inaugural Launch Lab X program in 2018-19. Now, Fortune 50 companies and startups alike enter Sophya’s metaverse to work, socialize, form communities, and throw incredible events. Here’s how the conversation unfolded: 1:07 - Vishal's introduction 3:15 - What Sophya is all about 10:40 - Learnings from customers using Sophya 16:09 - Advice to founders for building and managing distributed teams 20:35 - How to build relationships in distributed teams 28:19 - Advice to Engineering leaders for building relationships within teams 34:46 - Personality tests used by Sophya 40:06 - Fully remote vs hybrid work set-up 45:48 - The disconnect between people and management on work from anywhere 50:12 - Tools that help in running distributed teams 52:25 - Video game recommendations About Turing.com Turing.com enables companies to hire senior, pre-vetted remote software developers. 200+ companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Andreessen, Founders Fund, Kleiner, and Bloomberg, have hired Turing developers. Companies can, with Turing, hire top 1% remote engineers who have strong technical and communication skills and work in their time zone. 1) Hire from over 1M remote software developers across 150+ countries. 2) Hire remote software developers across 100+ skill-sets, including React, Node, Python, Angular, Swift, React Native, Android, Java, Rails, Golang, PHP, Vue, DevOps, and Machine Learning. 3) Turing remote developers are vetted over 5 hours of tests and interviews that rival Silicon Valley’s vetting standards. Turing reviews candidates’ data structures, algorithms, systems design, project planning abilities, and knowledge of specific software specializations/frameworks. 4) If you decide to stop within two weeks, you pay nothing with a risk-free trial. Turing is backed by well-known investors like WestBridge Capital, Foundation Capital, Facebook’s first CTO (Adam D’Angelo), executives from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, and Founders Fund (investors in Facebook, Tesla, Asana, etc), among others. The company is led by serial AI entrepreneurs Jonathan Siddharth and Vijay Krishnan, whose last AI firm leveraged remote talent and was successfully acquired. Learn more at https://turing.com/s/MzwLWR -------------------------------------------------------- Find out more at partnerships@turing.com Follow Turing.com on all our social handles: Twitter: https://twitter.com/turingcom FB: https://facebook.com/turingcom Instagram: https://instagram.com/turingcom LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/turi... Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/Turingcom ------------------------------------------------------------- #TuringHire #TuringJobs Hire Top Software Engineers - https://turing.com/s/cX9efC Apply for Remote US Software Jobs - https://turing.com/s/AbESaq