Crowded House

(Note: This is Grover writing, not Allen!)

I am frequently out of the PhotoShelter office. Our headquarters, in New York City, is a small, modest office space. Our entire staff fits inside of one room filled with desks and computers and phones, and when we started 2 years ago, we knew we would need to find a bigger space someday. If things went well, we would say, we’d need to find a new place sooner rather than later.

I am based out of San Francisco, so I don’t have any dedicated desk space in our New York office. Since the PhotoShelter staff is growing rapidly, each time I come to New York, I have to find a new place to sit. Last week that place was a pile of cardboard boxes.

It is indeed time to move to a bigger office.

I counted 15 people busily working in the office space that originally held 8, and felt the need to document this with a picture. (If you look closely, you can see my Powerbook resting atop my desk of cardboard boxes in the very back of the room.)

(Click on the picture to see a much larger version, with the names of all the individuals added.)

The good news is that, next month, we’re moving to a much bigger office right on Union Square, across the street from a park, next door to a microbrewery and around the corner from a totally amazing sushi restaurant.

I *may* even get my own desk at some point, but in the meantime I’m trying to think of ways to convince our network guru to extend the office wireless network to the park across the street. Wish me luck!

About the author

Grover Sanschagrin
Grover is co-founder of PhotoShelter. He is a frequent contributor to the PhotoShelter blog. He loves tequila, Frank Zappa, and avocados. You can follow him on Twitter here: @heygrover

8 Comments

Allen Murabayashi 6-15-2007

AH, my old friend grover. You might have noticed that grover is absent from the picture, but I took the liberty of photoshopping him into the scene because he’s a big part of the family. http://www.punkyboy.com/2007/full-house-gs.jpg

Jason Burfield 6-15-2007

I feel there should be a reward for the first person to spot him.

Caroline 6-15-2007

Who’s Grover?

Susanne 6-15-2007

As Grover’s sister I would never miss that mug of his hanging as two pictures on the wall. Very clever.

Susanne 6-15-2007

What is it exacly that Grover is doing in those pictures? Just curious!

Steven Frischling 6-15-2007

Grover I like the PowerBook on the Dell boxes. It shows the superior nature of Apple over Windows. Also, not having an office is good. I spent a year with no office while working as a director, it was great! No way to track you down when you don’t want to be tracked down. Enjoy the bigger space!

Brad Mangin 6-15-2007

I am hoping there is a nice couch and some ice cold Cokes on hand in the new office for when I come in to visit and share a beverage with Burf.

wow gold 10-10-2009

Thanks for your information, i have read it, very good！

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