From Free Spending by Startups Stir Memories of Dot-Com Era Excesses published in the Wall Street Journal on October 5, 2014:

> Matt Galligan, co-founder and chief executive of Circa 1605 Inc., which runs a mobile application for news, says rent on his 3,000-square-foot office in SoMa has roughly doubled since the company moved in two years ago. But the rent and renovations to expose the brick walls weren’t “unnecessary burn,” he says. His 12 employees “are spending nearly a third of their life there,” he says. “It helps for it to be a positive experience.”

I guess exposed brick walls do come in handy when you need something to bang your head against.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/startups-spend-with-abandon-flus...