There is no standard 8-to-6 overlap. Someone joins early or late.
There's no shared 9-to-5 between Sydney and Boston; at 14 hours apart, one city's workday is the other's evening or night. Your best bet is one team taking an early-morning or late-evening call — alternating who stretches keeps it fair over time.
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One in San Francisco, one in London, one in Sydney. Many of the best startups are built this way, and many fail because of it. A practical playbook for co-founder relationships across time zones in the first three years. -
8 AM Tokyo is 4 PM in Los Angeles the day before. West Coast afternoon windows, the East Coast dead zone, and why the Philippines slot is an hour off. -