If culture is the thing that is holding your company to it's purpose, you aren't going to succeed.

In the same way Comma went from "Our goal is to solve AI, Comma body is the next big thing" to George peacing out because now they are just doing the busy work to make more money.

The big benefit of remote is being able to live 500 miles away and/or in a different country; and that requires being full-time remote.

If he's anti full-time remote, then his pool of candidates is still limited to those who live in San Diego or very close to it.