I&#x27;d love to do this for my next startup (in Seattle and&#x2F;or Berlin; maybe an Asia location too).  It&#x27;s the most efficient way to work.  I&#x27;ve done it with Sealand&#x2F;HavenCo and in war zones, but not recently elsewhere.<p>It&#x27;s unsustainable when startup isn&#x27;t the primary (or, basically only) thing in your life, but there are a few potential solutions:<p>0) Be flexible.  The biggest bar to this is probably people with families&#x2F;kids (which I personally hope to never have, but I respect that some people, including great employees&#x2F;founders&#x2F;etc., do and deeply value having family interactions) -- do whatever is possible to address this.  It&#x27;s probably not a one size fits all solution.  &quot;Live on site 2-3 days&#x2F;week, wfh otherwise&quot; might actually be preferable to a lot of people with families than spending 1-2h&#x2F;day commuting and 8-12h&#x2F;day working 5 days&#x2F;week.<p>1) Duration limited (say, a startup from 0 to 10-15 employees and $20mm&#x2F;yr revenue -- could be 1-3y).  Even if the duration is long (3y), having a specific time where it will change as the default helps.<p>2) People who are inherently suited to this (which probably works well for, say, early career security people; not as well for civil engineers.)<p>3) Intermittent -- work&#x2F;live like this for months at a time, then go back &quot;home&quot;.<p>4) High budget: live&#x2F;work like this AND have enough money to have a &quot;regular&quot; house&#x2F;apartment elsewhere, or at least go on great vacations.<p>5) Deep mission at the startup: &quot;save the world from spy agencies&quot;, yes.  &quot;Build a more efficient billing system for other startups&quot;, probably not.<p>6) Strongly prioritize &quot;no assholes rule&quot; in hiring. (The worst thing about having one coddled asshole is then everyone else feels the need to equivalently act like an asshole to be taken seriously; it&#x27;s self perpetuating)<p>7) Have an obvious physical reason for being in the same place -- easier to co-live in a remote location building a dam, than it is to co-live in an office park in Kentucky to build billing software.