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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

ive seen the Pixar office before and i would love to go there.

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"That wasn't very nice...I do believe you killed my hat."

Driver of the FIRE LINDY RUFF Bandwagon since 2008.

Twitter and Yahoo do not belong on that list with the others. lol

The micro offices at Pixar are awesome. Crawling is required to get into them IIRC.

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Miles to go before I sleep

‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

I like crawling. I rather like the word crawling too.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

My bf's sister worked at JWT for over 8 years. It's pretty cool her office made it on there.

Those were pretty sweet haha. I think those type of offices would make anyone wanna work for them. I imagine is a unique experience.

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LETS GO BUFFALO!

When I moved to California during the .com boom, the datacenter I worked for had multiple kegs of beer on tap in their fully stocked professional kitchen.
Catered personalized lunches every day.
Pool, pinball, arcade games including original pong and space invaders.
Free vending machines stocked with everything from burritos to fiber optic cables.
BBQ's twice a week, free laundry on site, showers and even sleeping quarters if you needed it.

Those were the days.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

What happened to them then XC?

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The .com bubble blew up, and hard.

Back then, all you had to do was come up with a compelling business idea, and you'd find a shitton of venture capital to do it. It didn't matter as much to have a PROFITABLE business plan, you just had to have a cool idea.

VC would pour in, companies would start up, have an IPO, and see their stock prices skyrocket. Most had no chance of ever making a profit, and didn't put much thought into long term sustainability.

Over time, the VC's wanted some return on their investments. Interest rates were going up, and money was no longer cheap to borrow. It became harder for these startups to get new cash, and they started dropping. Cash was now something to be valued instead of spent freely.

For the companies that survived, a lot of these perks went away. It just didn't make business sense to spend all that cash on all the extra stuff.

Heh...well....

Frontier communications became GlobalCenter which got purchased by Globalcrossing which went tits up in a spectacular fashion who then sold their datacenter holdings to Equinix which is when I bailed the company.

During its hayday the place hosted Playboy, American Airlines, Yahoo, one of the first Google installations, Lucas Films, Autotrader and the list goes on.

The last time I drove by their 3 main Sunnyvale Datacenters, 2 of them were empty and up for lease and one was turned into a warehouse.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

The Google and Pixar offices are the coolest.

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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