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Buzz Andersen, John Gruber, and Neven Mrgan all have some great shots of the brand new Panic HQ in not-so-sunny Portland, Oregon, including some from our recent Re-Grand Re-Office Re-Warming party last week. (October 2008 was our official move-in.)
I’ll leave it to Cabel to do the big blow-out blog post about the new office, with all the detail photos and backstory. Expect it sometime in 2010, but seriously, it’ll be worth the wait. I work here, and even I’m looking forward to it.
I’ve been silently dreading the inevitable “that’s great but where’s my Transmit update” and “hey, don’t you know there’s a recession on!” comments, but for the most part they are not appearing (or the photographers are doing an exceptional job of comment moderation.)
The thing you can’t get from a photo of our office is the context. This office wasn’t born in a week by a flock of venture capitalists crapping money all over us — it’s 10+ years of being relatively thrifty, working hard, literally running out of room for desks at the old office, and generally NOT being the 1997 dot-com you might think we were if you just saw one of these photos and tended toward the cynical. (For the record, we’ve never taken a penny of investor money or other debt, and the lease for the new space is actually cheaper per square-foot than our old one.)
The office is, if anything, a love letter to our co-workers — a small army of the most passionate and talented Mac designers, developers and genuinely nice people you could ever hope to meet. It’s an incubator for awesome. If you think Panic = Cabel + Steve, well, it has been much, much more than that for a very long time indeed.
We hope our guys wake up in the morning and look forward to coming to work and when they get here think, man, I directly helped make this real — what’s next?
We spend a lot of time here, so we wanted a comfortable space that would fuel creative thoughts, acknowledge our past, and give us room to breathe for the years ahead. My sincerest thanks to the many architects, designers, and craftsmen who I think produced exactly that.
