In the vast San Francisco loft that Dropbox calls home, there's a Lego room, a life-size plastic shark, and a Golden Gate Bridge mosaic made from disassembled Rubik's Cubes. Chipper millennials who may or may not be worth millions of dollars zip by on scooters and Ripstiks. Coders dress in sneakers, untucked shirts, and ties, just to show how deeply they're submerged in their latest project. And if you wander into the cafeteria, you'll find a chef who once worked at Apple and Google.
There's even a music room, a glassed-in space that looks an awful lot like a recording studio. Ostensibly for "jamming" after a tough day of work, the room has long been a part of the Dropbox universe, and according to CEO Drew Houston, it gets upgraded each time the company moves offices, beefed up with real amps and instruments.
Houston is himself a musician, and he has an engineer's affection for musical hardware. "When I first got into guitar, I was terrible because I was just learning," he says. "But I had all the pedals."
By: Marcus Wohlsen,
Continue reading...
via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/10/future-of-dropbox
No comments:
Post a Comment