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Shouldn't they deposit that money in a bank?



And have their employees work out of Starbucks?


We originally wanted to work in our apartment forever. We figured we could fit 100 people in 5 apartment units in our building. Assuming we would need to scale beyond that, Joe and I talked about renting every home on the street. Imagine product in one house, marketing in another... Wasn't really feasible though.


Why, oh why, did this beautiful dream die?


I know. Train has left. Inspiration for a new startup perhaps?


That would have been epic.

Zoning code issues or hard finding a block of housing to buy with owners willing to sell?


"Wasn't really feasible though"

Zoning as only one issue. You most definitely can't run a business in a residential apartment, condo, coop or neighborhood. In some neighborhoods you might slide by depending on the makeup and the neighbors.


That sounds amazing an scary at the same time. Wonder if you could try it out for a new product team, that's fairly isolated from rest of the company. A startup within AirBnb?


"airbnb skunkworks? Yeah, they're three houses down"




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