How Expensify shed Silicon Valley arrogance to realize its global ambitions
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Expensify may be the most ambitious software company ever to mostly abandon the Bay Area as the center of its operations.
The startup’s history is tied to places representative of San Francisco: The founding team worked out of Peet’s Coffee on Mission Street for a few months, then crashed at a penthouse lounge near the 4th and King Caltrain station, followed by a tiny office and then a slightly bigger one in the Flatiron building near Market Street.
Thirteen years later, Expensify still has an office a few blocks away on Kearny Street, but it’s no longer a San Francisco company or even a Silicon Valley firm. The company is truly global with employees across the world and it did that before COVID-19 made remote working cool.
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