No, I just meant that they were using some extravagant home in the hills as an office rather than doing the less exciting thing of renting an office in one of the many office parks. It felt like they were wasting money on a lavish lifestyle. To me it seemed like an indicator of a lack of prudent business sense.

I had also just left a startup where the CEO treated the company like some boys clubhouse and I did not want to get in to a situation like that again.