Opinion

May 2, 2022

Want to build a US-facing startup? Try working on a European time zone

Operating on Europe time means you don’t have to deal with distracting meetings until later in the day 


Yarden Shaked

3 min read

Yarden Shaked

I used to think startups should be in the same time zone as their customers and investors. 

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