There's this fetish for formica tables, broken chairs and rotting pizza boxes among startups that's frankly a little hard to understand (or at least to justify)

There's this fetish for formica tables, broken chairs and rotting pizza boxes among startups that's frankly a little hard to understand (or at least to justify). Art, office space, furniture and infrastructure are often really not all that expensive. They can be worth of a heck of a lot more than they cost. Your environment can affect how you work. It can affect who decides to work for you. It can improve the lives of your coworkers or employees. It can help sales. It can help investment. We don't denigrate art or design when it comes in the form of an apple product -- why denigrate a mural?