How do you run your standups?

I am curious about your thoughts on this approach to standups. Do you think adding in some time before or after your standup has been useful to bring your teams together? Do you think adding more people to a dedicated meeting with multiple breakout functions is a useful way to improve cross company collaboration? Are the problems of connecting and cross collaborating real problems your remote teams are facing? I wrote about this here and wanted some feedback as our startup is looking into remote work. https://www.rally.video/post/stand-ups-suck-why-not-rally-instead