Thirteen Months of Working, Eating, and Sleeping at the Googleplex - Bloomberg
Anyone can sleep in the office for a night, a few nights, even most of the time. But to remove the option of escaping the office entirely—that’s what makes it heroic in Silicon Valley. Like, for instance, when U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald came recruiting last year for coders willing to provide their services to their country, promising that his hires could create their own titles. Weaver took the job and then told his new boss, “Bob, this is the part where I hold you to your word. ” Weaver is now Rogue Leader of the Digital Service for Veterans Affairs. Or there’s the time in 2005, when Weaver, then a 27-year-old “site ecologist” at Google, decided on a friend’s dare to do away with his 90-minute commute by living out of an RV in the Google parking lot. To win the dare, Weaver had to last a full year. Then Ben Discoe, another programmer, arrived at Google knowing nothing of Weaver’s feat. In Silicon Valley mythology, sleeping at the office is second only to working out of a garage. Like many tech founders, Box Chief Executive Officer Aaron Levie worked out of his home, hiring people to work there until home wasn’t big enough. “I don’t think in any circumstance I would have been able to date anybody anyway, being pretty uncool and working all the time. Source: www.bloomberg.com
