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I think if you're over 25, this type of environment loses quite a bit of appeal.
Definitely if you're a slacks-wearing corporate stooge middle manager, you'd rather work in an office park with a linoleum cafeteria and acres of parking. To remind yourself every day that you're not exceptional.
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I think if you're over 25, this type of environment loses quite a bit of appeal.
Definitely if you're a slacks-wearing corporate stooge middle manager, you'd rather work in an office park with a linoleum cafeteria and acres of parking. To remind yourself every day that you're not exceptional.
A good way to get publicity. But it's obvious that the idea of using a residential apartment (won't even get into zoning etc.) and a living quarters that cramped isn't a long term solution to a business. Nice gimmick but I would question if this were replicated 100 times how many setups like these would yield positive results as opposed to the obvious problems with living like this and working in close quarters. Add:…
I completely agree it's not a long term solution, but I got the feeling from being with the team for two days that it might work in the mid term. The situation wouldn't be right for the vast majority of founders, but the team gets along better than any I've worked with.
The biggest downside is probably the impact on recruiting for senior employees, especially folks from academia. There might be bigger cultural issues with those types of people though.
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Working in a shitty place? That place looks awesome ! I would love to work in a place like this.
So, some things to consider when doing this: Who am I working with? Am I comfortable with those same people having free access to my person and belongings while I sleep? Do I trust these folks not to do something stupid that could damage the capital while partying? (I once had somebody spill a beer into an SGI workstation because we were using an apartment as an office, and one of our dudes threw a party.) Can we dea…
What's "weird" about a nightly orgy?
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Working in a shitty place? That place looks awesome ! I would love to work in a place like this.
So, some things to consider when doing this: Who am I working with? Am I comfortable with those same people having free access to my person and belongings while I sleep? Do I trust these folks not to do something stupid that could damage the capital while partying? (I once had somebody spill a beer into an SGI workstation because we were using an apartment as an office, and one of our dudes threw a party.) Can we dea…
Can you turn this into a reality show? I'd watch.
Haha—the idea has already come up!
Stills are a little easier though, and probably more importantly, they're way less intrusive than full-on filming. There's just something nerve-wracking about knowing everything you do is being recorded. I wouldn't want to subject a team to that.
I'll also note that we nailed down expectations right at the beginning for what was on and off the record. I have a bunch of much goofier pictures, for example, that won't be getting out ;)
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So, some things to consider when doing this: Who am I working with? Am I comfortable with those same people having free access to my person and belongings while I sleep? Do I trust these folks not to do something stupid that could damage the capital while partying? (I once had somebody spill a beer into an SGI workstation because we were using an apartment as an office, and one of our dudes threw a party.) Can we dea…
Microryza employee here. The majority of us were friends from before Microryza, so there was a lot of trust already going into it.
I think that having a community is very important in making any business venture--I would be unsurprised to see this emerge as a pattern in entrepreneurial ventures for folks our age.
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I think if you're over 25, this type of environment loses quite a bit of appeal.
Definitely if you're a slacks-wearing corporate stooge middle manager, you'd rather work in an office park with a linoleum cafeteria and acres of parking. To remind yourself every day that you're not exceptional.
What does that even mean?
Do you really find it surprising that there at people that wouldn't like to work in somebody's one-bedroom basement apartment?
Are all those people necessarily "corporate stooges"? Really?