Originally Posted by
Pamtivek
I'm trying to convince my boss to convince his boss to enable me to commute to work by bike, it would be helpful if you could post some stories or pictures of silicon valley type companies with bikes somewhere (I remember seeing once the entrance to Facebook with a bunch of bicycles parked)
I'm responsible for the data path at a Silicon Valley enterprise Software as a Service backup startup. In a recent press release we reported 247% year-over-year growth and 99% customer retention.
http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nach...ise-gr-256.htm
10-15% of us commute by bicycle at least some of the time, other people just ride recreationally starting at the office, we have showers, we have company cycling jerseys, and just added a repair stand.
Engineers, support people, and marketing people all riding helps with the esprit de corps.
I find the mental white space provided by cycling conducive to figuring out how to crush our competition enroute to a billion dollar market cap, like designing my patent-pending WAN optimization technology which lets us serve larger more profitable customers.
Here's our support manager taking a break to help a customer on a weekly ride with engineers standing by in case help is needed
http://www.zetta.net/blog/backup-and...ked/#more-4453
