Office Tour - NewCo
Carl Hewitt
Fractional CTO – Innovative Technology & Strategic Leadership | Complex Technical Problem-Solving Expertise | Focused on Navigating Global Client Challenges | Hypergrowth Startup Scalability
I changed the picture at the top of my posts (BTW, thank you all for reading - I decided to experiment with publishing some random thoughts and am really enjoying it... and its nice to get the comments and a few people actually reading).
Most people start to interact with a company when it gets to a certain size, can afford to have staff, have customers, maybe have nice office space.
This is what it looks like when it first starts. Single desk. Single Computer. 500x more tasks than can get done in a day.
I have always been in such a rush to get past this stage, I never took the time to fully appreciate how amazing it is to be able to start with an idea and form it up into a technology and then a company.
This might be the picture that was the start of something really big, or a picture I will remove in embarrassment 18 months from now when we have no traction.
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I love my office. The one big thing I did when I exited my last company was to build myself a really world class place for me to work. I have worked remote from the companies I started for the last 10 years, but did so from an office that was converted from a spare bedroom.
I wanted to have a place for me to work that was big enough that others could visit for short times to work with me - but was not a traditional office. I built an office about 1/2 a mile from my house (so I could walk - I used to love living in San Francisco where I got to walk to and from work every day).
My office is designed to be the hub of what is probably going to be a virtual team (at least for a long while). I live in a great place (kitty hawk, nc) and wanted a place where the team could visit for short spells to work together on our big ideas... but not be in a florescent light, drop ceiling square office suite.
For now, its just me. A bit lonely compared to what I was used to - but also really full of possibilities. Its like finding a seed and planting it... not knowing exactly what is it going to be? Sunflower? Oak Tree? Weed?
This post has no big idea in it. Wanted to put it out there so could look back on it in 5 years and say 'yep, that's what it was like when we launched'.
Vice President of Product Management | Strategic Leader and Builder of Great Products | Living the Innovators Dilemma
3 年That's a great looking space. Could use more firearms, but still, awesome
NodeJS Developer Open to Opportunities
3 年Looks interesting, Carl. One day I intend on starting a business and your posts are definitely something I can look back on and relate to.
Brilliant! Love your corporate HQ
SVP & GM @ Salesforce | Professional Services
3 年Hey Carl, Enjoying your posts. I love the drafting table. What's the story behind it? My grandfather was an artist so he spent every day of his life hunched over a similar desk. Every time I'd visit him, he'd be sitting there, cigarette in hand, paintbrush/charcoal/pencil in the other. I can smell that room by simply looking at your table.