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Among Internet start-up company Airbnb Inc.'s Side has a social calendar of events, the top covered with colorful notes. Recently arranged a Wednesday is a wine and cheese party to participate in a full discussion of stock options. Friday is a rooftop barbecue on Saturday is an "air guitar" contest.

Airbnb business is gathering information for users around the selection of holiday apartments, which employs 120 people. In addition to the above benefits, it also regularly organize some activities, including the "mustache Monday" (employees wearing fake beard), "Yoga Tuesday" (the company before lunch), and "Thursdays" (company-wide foot softball game ).

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The company's 29-year-old co-founder Jie Biya (Joe Gebbia) said Airbnb work like a very interesting school to school, but also pay to take; perhaps more like a summer camp. Jie Biya's office has a two-story indoor tree house, as well as Pan American Airways (Pan Am) a retired aircraft section.

San Francisco is the center of a new round of technology boom, where engineers and product developers for the next great innovation to work overtime to rush. But what they were doing 10 years also reveals a no "bubble feeling."

Some start-up Internet companies like Carnival in 1999. Airbnb the move later this month will be held during the festival, rap singer, sometimes investing in technology companies Hammer (MC Hammer) will be present. Review site Yelp Inc.'s Activity room with three kegs, a barrel is embedded iPad, to show how much wine left in the barrel.Last month, the start-up company Peanut Labs Inc. And AdParlor Inc. Held a lecture entitled "Pirates of Silicon Valley Parade" of the sea activities, each ticket $ 600, tickets have sold out.

Business community, said start-up companies keen talent, it must use ingenuity and benefits to attract and retain talent.

Facebook's annual event a "Game Day", during the entire company should be enough to softball games and the "Capture the Flag" and other classic games on campus.

Online storage sites Dropbox Inc. A rock room, the staff play guitar and drums, plus a room for playing video games "Dance Revolution" (Dance Dance Revolution).

Company-wide free food is now everywhere. On Friday listing the Zynga Inc. Every day for lunch and dinner for employees, the use of mustard oil, mayonnaise and pine syrup Japan Chubby features such as foodstuffs, but also using local products. This social gaming company said that its goal is to provide sustainable, fresh food, rather than ornate or excessive eating.

Requirements during the technology bubble in 1999 wearing a blue shirt and khaki pants dress code, has become the worship of the hoodies. Many important figures in the technology sector wear hoodies at the press conference and business meeting, among them Dropbox, "an angry bird" (Angry Birds) production company Rovio Mobile Ltd. And FourSquare Labs Inc.'s Executives.

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New York-based children's site called Kidzvuz.com co-founder Nancy Friedman (Nancy Friedman) said that in April this year her first technology conference website when the new dress code staged a surprise.

Friedman, wearing business casual, almost every other person wearing hoodies. 46-year-old Friedman wrote on Twitter, their appearance seems not at all cool. But a hoodie "uniform" reminded her of a group of pretentious, but it seems there is no difference in young people. Nevertheless, Friedman now has a company logo printed hoodies, printed above a bee.

Facebook founder Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) is to consolidate the hoodie in the high-tech culture in an important position. Zuckerberg will hoodie as their uniforms.Participating in the "Wall Street Journal" D8 Conference held last year, Zuckerberg while out of the sweat in the spotlight, they informed participants that he had never took off his hoodie.

But when the 27-year-old Zuckerberg in February this year, a dinner with President Obama, he really took off his hoodie. April this year, Obama had access to Facebook's headquarters, said self, he is wearing a suit that let Zuckerberg tie people. Zuckerberg end of the visit he sent Obama a hoodie.

According to venture capitalists Mark Anderson (Marc Andreessen) introduced cashmere cashmere hoodies is now Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, California (Sand Hill Road) on the most popular equipment. Sand Hill Road is one of many well-known venture capital firms are located. Anderson recently invited former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers (Larry Summers) as Special Adviser to the company, he said the challenge now is how to make Summers also wear hoodies.

Airbnb founded in 2008 to provide B & B is a vacation site, the company believes that entertainment is the institutionalization of the company's management philosophy. Jie Biya said that if you're sitting in a meeting wearing a fake beard next to colleagues, you can not day passes too serious. He often participated in the company at the "mustache on Monday."

Jie Biya said, to create a very comfortable atmosphere can inspire creativity. He said that we should not only work hard but also enjoy the entertainment.

Airbnb three weeks ago moved into new office was inspired by Jie Biya's apartment, there has also been the company's first office. Where, Airbnb employees have back to back, to work side by side, even in the bedroom and kitchen work. The new office space of approximately 2,300 square meters, there are long, wide strip desk, office middle of three so-called "living room", its purpose is the conference room. Three living room is modeled on its website the most popular travel tenant house design.

One is a living room called "mushroom dome," the tree house, the upper one for lunch area.

Airbnb trying to stimulate sales growth and investor enthusiasm. The company's investors include several venture capital firms and actor Ashton Kutcher (Ashton Kutcher). Web site last year, the company said bookings increased by 800% over the past four months, bookings have almost doubled.

Jie Biya said, I think feel at home here. If you're really passionate about something, and you are willing to work hard, when the day will do the time, do not you will feel like a work day?