News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on AOL Offers Startups Free Office Space.

Re:AOL Offers Startups Free Office Space by egiva on Saturday March 26, 2011 @05:57PM (#2373316)
From a business standpoint, I've got to agree that AOL is making a lot of bold moves, and is trying to reform.

But from a humanist standpoint, reading an article about AOL's massive amount of open office space, reminds me that they just laid off (or are in the process of laying off) 25% of their workforce.

Not saying that this Palo Alto space is now free after former employees vacated, for all I know they worked in other offices, but still - my first gut reaction to this article was "yuck" - like "hey startups! We just laid off a huge chunk of our staff - more room for you!"

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AOL Offers Startups Free Office Space by myshoppio on Saturday March 26, 2011 @07:13PM (#2373499)
Well on the other hand look at how much these, huge cash (no ideas) rich companies spend prematurely buying out new ideas before these startups have flourished, thinking this will help their brand and traffic stats. However, If they succeed acting like an incubator, awesome ideas will have the time to blossom (with cash and high level support).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AOL Offers Startups Free Office Space by joshu on Sunday March 27, 2011 @12:10AM (#2374132)
The building is pretty new and iirc larger than the rest of their silicon valley real estate.

Tasty labs actually moved into some of their old space in downtown mountain view.

[ Parent | on HN ]