The House Y Combinator Should Have Built

Re:The House Y Combinator Should Have Built by jon_dahl on Thursday March 01, 2012 @03:47AM (#3651424)

Here is where Zencoder was born: http://yfrog.com/09x7fsj.

We went a little outside of the Mountain View area and got a house in the Santa Cruz mountains. It was great. Three desks, three computers, three bedrooms, a nice kitchen, and a hot tub - perfect for those cold February days. There was a country store up the road, but not much else for miles around. Nothing to distract us except for redwoods, wild animals (turkeys, mice, deer, a scorpion), and the occasional storm. But still, we were only 30 minutes from Mountain View and 40 minutes from Palo Alto - closer than if we had lived in San Francisco.

Those were the 4 most productive months of my life.

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Re:The House Y Combinator Should Have Built by pmjordan on Thursday March 01, 2012 @05:03AM (#3651568)

Wow, that looks (and sounds) fantastic. I'm curious now: how does that kind of thing compare price-wise to an urban or suburban place, on a startup budget? Do you pay much of a premium for the idyllic location?

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