Apple's 1978 office floor plan
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Apple's 1978 office floor plan
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#3It's interesting to see that in such an early year, Jobs and Woz's offices are almost as far apart as they could possibly be in the building.
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#4It's interesting to see that in such an early year, Jobs and Woz's offices are almost as far apart as they could possibly be in the building.
It's because Woz always wanted to stay as an engineer, not as a manager. That's why Jobs and Markkula is one place while Woz near the software team.
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#5Tennis Courts!
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#6Tennis Courts!
It's tennis courts?
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#7Tennis Courts!
Maybe it was ping-pong table "courts".
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#8My grandparents had an Advent when I was a kid. That thing probably spat out more radiation than I ever would care to research.
It was a beautiful beast though and could heat a room.
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#9It's interesting to see that in such an early year, Jobs and Woz's offices are almost as far apart as they could possibly be in the building.
It's because Woz always wanted to stay as an engineer, not as a manager. That's why Jobs and Markkula is one place while Woz near the software team.
You could also say, conversely, that Jobs placed himself next to Markkula instead of Woz, finding it more important to sit next to the VP of marketing than the chief engineer.
I'm not making any judgements on the way they organized the physical space in the office. It clearly worked, after all, Apple in 1978 was on the precipice of an unprecedented success.
I'm just interested in the way that the physical location of people in an office affects the work that is done there. I wonder, would the early history of Apple had been any different if Jobs and Woz had sat right next to each other every day?
How many startups today seat the technical and business co-founders next to one another, versus those that sit far apart, and how does that change the personalities of those companies?