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Uh oh. Irrational as it seems, seeing this decreased my estimate of Twitter's prospects. It has same kind of overdoneness you used to see during the Bubble in

by pg 17y ago

Uh oh. Irrational as it seems, seeing this decreased my estimate of Twitter's prospects. It has same kind of overdoneness you used to see during the Bubble in the late 90s.

jamie 17y ago
Well, they have to catch up to Facebook's overdoneness. http://www.contemporist.com/2009/10/28/facebook-headquarters-by-studio-oa/ http://www.contemporist.com/2009/10/28/facebook-headquarters...
theblackbox 17y ago
I was reminded of 24 Hour Party People and Factory Records swish designer table (somewhere around £20k iirc)
dschobel 17y ago
No kidding. At least when Brin spent company money indulging his wife, it was on a genetics startup. Or maybe that's just my engineer's aesthetic showing how little I care for objets d'arte in the workplace.
- rms 17y ago
  23andMe's pitch did seem perfectly reasonable at the time and it's a pretty good area to keep a money-losing startup going. It fits in with Google's overall mission, etc.
orionlogic 17y ago
i don't see any overdose in this office. Some colorful walls, bird vinyls(except embedded ones) and ikea inspired simple furnishing shouldn't be such expensive. I remember reading about ID software's office ( or j. carmakcs) back in bubble days where gigantic marbles allover the place, but i might be wrong with the company.
- projectileboy 17y ago
  id Software was always pretty darn profitable; you may be thinking of Ion Storm, John Romero's infamous exercise in cash-burning.
- rms 17y ago
  Rather than Ikea inspired, it's more like they have the type of furniture that Ikea cheaply copies. Those stools pictured cost $550. Which I guess isn't bad when you compare it to a new Aeron for $999, but you can probably get Ikea's nicest stool for $100.
- Andys 17y ago
  Did you see the bit about the DJ booth? That part pushed it over the edge for me.
ivankirigin 17y ago
Yes your comment is irrational. The percentage of funding spent on the offices is likely small. This made you worried about their prospects, and not recent (hard to measure) stats about flat growth? [imho, they're doing fine, but had a bad few months. As far as execution, they are releasing a lot more a lot faster than they used to - but is it the right stuff?]
wglb 17y ago
Looks like something that would cause Casey (from Pattern Recognition) a seizure.

by pg 17y ago

Uh oh. Irrational as it seems, seeing this decreased my estimate of Twitter's prospects. It has same kind of overdoneness you used to see during the Bubble in the late 90s.

jamie 17y ago

Well, they have to catch up to Facebook's overdoneness. http://www.contemporist.com/2009/10/28/facebook-headquarters-by-studio-oa/ http://www.contemporist.com/2009/10/28/facebook-headquarters...

theblackbox 17y ago

I was reminded of 24 Hour Party People and Factory Records swish designer table (somewhere around £20k iirc)

dschobel 17y ago

No kidding. At least when Brin spent company money indulging his wife, it was on a genetics startup. Or maybe that's just my engineer's aesthetic showing how little I care for objets d'arte in the workplace.

rms 17y ago
23andMe's pitch did seem perfectly reasonable at the time and it's a pretty good area to keep a money-losing startup going. It fits in with Google's overall mission, etc.

orionlogic 17y ago

i don't see any overdose in this office. Some colorful walls, bird vinyls(except embedded ones) and ikea inspired simple furnishing shouldn't be such expensive. I remember reading about ID software's office ( or j. carmakcs) back in bubble days where gigantic marbles allover the place, but i might be wrong with the company.

projectileboy 17y ago
id Software was always pretty darn profitable; you may be thinking of Ion Storm, John Romero's infamous exercise in cash-burning.
rms 17y ago
Rather than Ikea inspired, it's more like they have the type of furniture that Ikea cheaply copies. Those stools pictured cost $550. Which I guess isn't bad when you compare it to a new Aeron for $999, but you can probably get Ikea's nicest stool for $100.
Andys 17y ago
Did you see the bit about the DJ booth? That part pushed it over the edge for me.

ivankirigin 17y ago

Yes your comment is irrational. The percentage of funding spent on the offices is likely small. This made you worried about their prospects, and not recent (hard to measure) stats about flat growth? [imho, they're doing fine, but had a bad few months. As far as execution, they are releasing a lot more a lot faster than they used to - but is it the right stuff?]

wglb 17y ago

Looks like something that would cause Casey (from Pattern Recognition) a seizure.