Basically all of us are async. A few of us in the bay area,a few on the east coast, 1 in australia, 1 in eastern europe, and a few in japan/korea.

We have 1 weekly standup at 3:00 PM PST which is ~8am Japan Time (where I live). All of our messaging is async. Most people manage themselves. Tasks tend to be longer sprints.

Half of our team has kids. Work is more independently scheduled. We all collaborate asynchronously.

We use gitter for all of our communications. The reason for this is customer support, user support, team chat, all in 1 place. It works fairly nicely.

All of our communication is remote first. This means most things happen via text or hangout.

Our business development is split in 2 main time zones. "Asian timezone" and "US timezone". Many of us fly.

Marketing material gets cross pollinated across language and time zone via 1 shared folder. (Language is important due to selling in japan,korea,china, and parts of the US).

I usually come back to the US every few months for conferences to try to keep touch.

I also get on a call every other day or so with my cofounder during his afternoon and my morning to make sure things stay in sync across time zones.

We started as 2 people in San Francisco.