“We’re operating out of everywhere,” Scott Keogh said with a laugh in his first interview as CEO Scout Motors, the American EV upstart spun out of VW Group.
While most established automotive players call the shots from sprawling, corporate palaces, Scout bases much of its operations — at least for now — out of a WeWork near Washington, D.C.
Scout Motors’ base of operations will eventually “anchor” near the $2 billion factory in South Carolina that was announced Friday, but Keogh believes remote work will be key to Scout Motors’ success. The company already has critical employees working remotely around the United States and overseas.
“I believe firmly that era is over,” Keogh said of the classic days of centralized organizations. “I don’t think it exists anymore in the spirit of Americans, in the spirit of the company.”
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