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Are you not familiar with the addage: "The success of your company is inversely proportional to the number of Aeron Chairs you have"
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We designed and built out (first dot com bubble) an office in SF for Quokka Sports.
They got a crap ton of VC$ and they built out this really nice brick and timber office, fish-bowl conf rooms etc...
They crashed and burned BEFORE they were even able to move into this amazing office, near the Ferry Building in SF....
I had to go there and take a bunch of pics of the newly built office, but which was never moved into.
They had a FUCKING BOATLOAD of Aeron chairs... all stacked up to the ceilings in all the conference rooms.
Those chairs at the time were ~$2,000 a piece - and they had like ~500 of them or so....
So, that used to be an actual measurement of fiscal responsibility in startups 20 years ago; How many Aeron Chairs did you buy with VC Money.
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Are you not familiar with the addage: "The success of your company is inversely proportional to the number of Aeron Chairs you have"
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We designed and built out (first dot com bubble) an office in SF for Quokka Sports.
They got a crap ton of VC$ and they built out this really nice brick and timber office, fish-bowl conf rooms etc...
They crashed and burned BEFORE they were even able to move into this amazing office, near the Ferry Building in SF....
I had to go there and take a bunch of pics of the newly built office, but which was never moved into.
They had a FUCKING BOATLOAD of Aeron chairs... all stacked up to the ceilings in all the conference rooms.
Those chairs at the time were ~$2,000 a piece - and they had like ~500 of them or so....
So, that used to be an actual measurement of fiscal responsibility in startups 20 years ago; How many Aeron Chairs did you buy with VC Money.