Social-coding startup GitHub's San Francisco headquarters looks less like an office and more like your favorite hangout bar.
That may be because the company got its start at Zeke's, a San Francisco sports bar, according to cofounder and CEO Tom Preston-Werner, who gave us a tour.
GitHub just raised $100 million from Andreessen Horowitz—the largest investment by the legendary VC firm to date, and one that valued the four-year-old startup at $750 million.
GitHub offers its customers, largely programmers, a place to jointly work on and store their code. Open-source projects can use GitHub for free. It makes money by selling private code-repository services and software to enterprises (and also by selling 3,000 GitHub T-shirts, mugs, and other goodies a month).
For years, GitHub made do without an office, meeting in bars or coffee shops. So they wanted the same atmosphere for their first office—fun, not "soul-deadening." When San Francisco's legendary Eddie Rickenbacker's bar shut down, Preston-Werner snapped up a vintage red Indian motorcycle from the watering hole's collection.
The front third of the office is an employee lounge, bar, and party area filled with funky furniture.
The company logo, the Octocat, is everywhere. The Octocat takes all kinds of forms, like this oil painting.
Dogs, video games, and a motorcycle are part of the decor.
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