Is It in Face Book's Best Interest to Have Thousands of Employees on Buses for Three Weeks?

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It seems to me that a company like facebuck or uber a not have been created without an office space. That being said, is it in face book's best interest to have thousands of employees on buses for three hours a day or two hours a day? It really now, some big trade off there. I think this my be wind up being the model is that the twitter team comes together and they jam out,. Then they go for three months in work. Could become like a model, i think....

0:35 Jason intros Capital Factory CEO & Founder Josh Baer
1:47 What is Capital Factory in its current iteration? How are they transitioning to remote? Loss of serendipity of random in-person connections
5:38 Josh takes Jason through the SXSW cancellation
10:29 Issues conceptualizing COVID's impact
15:35 Transitioning to rolling cohorts & optimizing their Slack community
21:36 Capital Factory's standard deal terms, why founders join, how returns are divvied up
27:30 Starting Capital Factory during the last economic downturn, how millennials will react to this crisis
30:45 Josh describes his 5 buckets of how companies are weathering the COVID storm
35:09 Remote work's effect on startup collaboration
41:01 COVID's effect on children, getting back to work
47:37 What investing mistakes has Josh made, and how has he learned from them?
56:00 What founder traits does Josh look for?
59:14 Moving to Austin, SXSW history