For a time, the Niantic office in Bellevue was a tiny room with four desks and five people. The manager would sit on a swivel chair in the middle and try to work on a laptop on his knee.

Later we upgraded to a room with twelve people in it where you had to ask at least two other people to stand up and move their chairs out of the way if you needed to get up for any reason.

Are we considering Tesla a startup now?

Sounds like a luxury still, I got to the "elbows touching" stage. You couldn't put a hand between my screen and the screens of my coworkers. For quiet time I'd go to the kitchen table...

Summer was a challenge because the A/C couldn't keep up at all.

Nope.

And the desks were doors on sawhorses.

I had to walk uphill both ways to my desk. With my smaller co-workers on my back.

I wish! Our desks were made out of tinfoil and old ramen boxes.

Luxury. We used less senior employees as desks.

Tesla, the 15 year old "startup".