Introducing Strawber
Back when we all worked at the same office in Huntington Park, I was able to bring my dog Strawber to work everyday. She sort of became the DreamHost mascot. I captured some video of Strawber this weekend for my up and coming short “The Dingo and the Slope Glider”. Here is a snippet. My [...]
Thoughts on Growing, Part 2
Why grow? Last week I talked about what I thought it took for a company to handle exponential growth (an “entrepreneur”) as well as non-exponential growth (an “MBA”). This week I’m going to rewind a bit and get into why companies like to grow at all. Unfortunately, growing a lot generally comes hand in hand with spending a [...]
Thoughts on Growing, Part 1
There are two kinds of people running companies. There are entrepreneurs and there are MBAs. (And when I say “MBA”, I don’t necessarily mean a person with an actual Master in Business Administration.. I just mean anybody who isn’t an “entrepreneur”. By defining things this way, nobody will be able to argue with all the horrible generalizations I’m going to make!) There are [...]
Jackets of Pain
We ordered some kick-butt jackets for our employees recently. They’re these nice heavy navy blue cotton doo-dads with a super warm fleece lining, AND they’ve got our logo embroidered right on the front. They arrived today and I was excited – but for more reasons than you might expect! Shortly after you begin working at [...]