I entered the workforce in a very different time with very different tools which makes it hard for me to think through the counterfactual: "What if I had had to be remote when I first started working?" But I think it would have been very difficult and I might have been less successful as a result.

Even today, I feel like I'm cruising a bit on existing in-person relationships. (I was large remote pre-COVID but I still met a lot of people at in-person events and meetings.