INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
With distributed workforces all the rage in the tech community these days, startups are trying to build new tools to keep those teams
connected and communicating in the ways that make folks most comfortable.One of these companies is the Orlando, Fla.-based startup, Yac,
which just raised $1.5 million in financing from a clutch of investors to reinvent voicemail for teams raised on Slack and Zoom calls.The
Indeed, new statistics indicate that 3% of Americans are working from home full time these days.These remote workforces can reduce costs for
both young and mature companies alike, but they come with certain trade-offs and can make communication and collaboration more difficult,
according to Yac co-founder Justin Mitchell.He points to the problems with communication and culture at Away, which contributed to the
asynchronously instead of needing to respond in real time
The winning team at the event, Yac, took off as a business when the founding team got a call from Adam Draper, the third-generation venture
Mitchell says, is the asynchronous aspect of communication that Yac enables
As a distributed team itself, Yac and SoFriendly knew the perils and annoyances that come from the always-on, real-time communication
freemium model that made Slack so initially compelling to early-stage companies
that it can, but that the experience is clunky and negative
