Wow, it’s been six months since I last updated this thing. Polyvore has been keeping me super busy! Thankfully, the startup life has turned out to be everything I hoped it would be and more (I’ll write more about that in a future post).
Polyvore is now at 8 full-time employees — 5 engineers, 1 bizdev person, 1 PR/marketing/community/office manager, and 1 PM (that’s me, although I spend most of my time writing code nowadays). Here’s a picture of us crowding around Jianing’s computer, celebrating the dropping of a table that reduced our overall db size and made the site much faster.
The other big update is that after almost a year of squatting with FriendFeed (thank you guys so much!), we finally got our own office on Castro St in Mountain View. It’s a huge retail space with floor-to-ceiling windows and lots of light. It’s definitely unique and the rent’s cheap, but the downside is that it lacks a kitchen and random people keep walking in because they think it’s a store.
Here are some shots of our new office. Keep in mind that we’re not done with decorating yet, so it looks kind of empty.
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Good to see your blog getting updated . I was wondering if you quit Polyvore. Are you wearing Google Tshirt in the photo. HAHA maybe missing working at Google?
glad to see that you’re enjoying polyvore, and congrats on the new office space. :)
Hey Jess! Didn’t know that you guys are now on Castro! Where on castro is it located? Congrats on finding a sweet spot there. Great location. :)
Noticed that you guys have a ping pong table as well. Do you guys play much? We should have a Raptr vs Polyvore game on a friday :).
That’s the old bikespring shop! Kinda an interesting location to have an office, but that does remind me of the good ‘ole “.com startup-esque” days. Let me guess, there’s also… free drinks, cup-o-noodles, and mrs. fields cookies, daily breaks to settle the score with some video game rivalries, jeans and t-shirts and sandals abound, and board meetings that degenerate into friendly banter about what to do next weekend… >HAHAHA< I definitely miss that environment…
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