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CEO Ian Tien on building a successful remote team”},”content”:{“rendered”:”

Mattermost is pretty open about what it is: an open-source, self-hosted alternative to Slack.u00a0n

The team didn’t originally set out to build a messaging tool at all; they wanted to build video games. A few years and one huge pivot later, they’re powering messaging and collaboration for companies like Samsung, Daimler, SAP and Cigna u2014 and they got there without ever actually having an office. All of Mattermost’s 100+ employees have been fully remote from the beginning.n

I hopped on a chat with Mattermost CEO and co-founder Ian Tien to talk about how they decided to go full-remote before it was really a thing, what it takes to make a remote team successful and his hopes for the growing number of remote companies. Here’s our chat, edited lightly for brevity and clarity.n

TechCrunch: Tell me a bit about Mattermost’s origin story. You didn’t originally set out to build a communication platform, right?n

Ian Tien: Yeah! So, when we started incorporating the company, we were doing video games u2014 we were doing an HTML5 game engine. n