During a PandoMonthly fireside chat this evening, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg discussed the reasons for building a distributed company.

“I would say going into the office every day is a productivity loss,” Mullenweg says. “Most offices are fairly soul-crushing environments. I think part of the reason is that they're… his goes back to political science. You have an amount of finite space, and this weird sort of thing happens when you're in such a small amount of space.