Empty Leadership

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5 pointsgrowdetroit2 comments

I see their offices in downtown Palo Alto every day. They have a HUGE, beautiful, almost art-gallery-like lounge for their employees at street level, which is entirely unused in practice. There is NEVER anyone inside. That room is so large it could hold 20 employee offices! Now figure in that this is PRIME DOWNTOWN PALO ALTO office space, and we see where Color's money is going.. nowhere.

I'd like to know how many companies remodel their offices when the first big wave of money comes in. I've seen it first-hand. I'm not sure if the board feels that they are a Real Company now and need to be seen as such by visitors and vendors, or if it's an internal desire to just show people "look, we did it". In either case, it's a shame.

I mean, sure, buy some nicer desks and chairs. But don't start building monuments.

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