I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lot of companies are global.
Frankly, I don't know how many companies there are, globally, which are truly global.
Since most corporate competitors have the same problems with sustainability and social reputation, it's worth trying to solve them together.
I have realised more and more that great companies, founded for a long-term purpose, such as Google or Facebook or SpaceX, may do more good in the world than any other vehicle that we have.
Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.
I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the U.K. to prove that was the case.
Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.
The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.
In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.
The beauty of the Internet is there's a niche market for everything, and if you can focus on it, you can build a sustainable and viable business of it.