Growing up as a company is way more fun than growing up as a person.
It happens a lot faster (hopefully), and it's far more linear and compounding — small wins lead to others and before you know it, if you're careful about your costs and make things that people want, you're in a place where you can start thinking a little less about now (operations and product) and far more about the future (the kind of company you want to be).
And we've always wanted to design far more than products — a great company is part of that.
So over the last few months, we decided to reinvest in ourselves by designing and building our first space to call home.
These were the principles that guided us:
Garage as crucible.
As we've been building this thing out, we couldn't help but be reminded of all the original garage startups in California, the Apple's and HP's of yore.
The concept of the "garage startup" is perhaps one of the most important ideas in modern American business.
