'Worst of both worlds': Life360 CEO won't support hybrid work
Watching footage of Hurricane Katrina’s rescue at home — in fact, next door to where his mother still lives — Hulls came up with the idea of a locator app. Getting funding isn’t easy – no one thought teens would own a cell phone. “That’s a good reason not to listen to investors,” he said. But he found the modal and, finally, the ASX list. Along the way, Hulls and his app have been at the center of debates about parenting style and privacy, as well as the target of social media campaigns, and even briefly, Australian tech lovers. But back to California. Hulls described the city’s tech precinct as a “ghost town”, emptied by pandemic-led remote work and sliding technology assessments. The changes are noticeable even to tourists: The Anchorage Hotel on Fisherman’s Wharf now has a concierge working from home for a week, for example. Hulls considers the sell-off in stock prices to be excessive. AFR AFR Weekend was in a meeting at ...
