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TC Cribs

All Episodes 2011 - 2015

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  • 2011-01-26T01:00:00Z
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TechCrunch tours top tech companies giving an inside look into startup life.

88 episodes

Series Premiere

2011-01-26T01:00:00Z

1x01 TC Cribs Tours Scribd Offices

Series Premiere

1x01 TC Cribs Tours Scribd Offices

  • 2011-01-26T01:00:00Z5m

It’s funny. When I tell my ‘normal’ friends that I’ve just come from Facebook’s office or need to head down to Google’s campus in Mountain View, they often give me a strange look, as if I’ve just told them I’m about to make a house call to the Easter Bunny. These companies aren’t places inhabited by actual people — they’re nebulous things coursing through the Internet’s series of tubes. But I can’t blame them. Most of the startup profiles we see in magazines feature a portrait of the founders solemnly gazing into the distance as they plot to change the world with their revolutionary new sharing widget. Sometimes there’s a snapshot of a few desks, each of which is far too neat for anyone to actually have done any work on. There’s got to be a better way. Which brings us to today’s episode of TC Cribs, featuring Scribd, the popular document sharing platform. This is something of an experiment for now, but there may well be more episodes coming in the future (leave a comment below if you think your office is a good fit!).

1x02 TC Cribs Tours Yelp Offices

  • 2011-02-04T01:00:00Z5m

Last week we debuted a new show on TechCrunch TV that took us on a whirlwind tour of Scribd, the popular document sharing website. Feedback to that episode was extremely positive, so we’re not wasting any time in bringing you another awesome tour of a hot tech company. This week’s blinged-out pad: Yelp. We’re still taking suggestions for more companies to check out, so feel free to leave your requests in the comments (be sure to tell us why it’s a great office!). And yes, we’re definitely interested in scoping out startups that don’t necessarily have millions in funding — provided your office has some character. We’ve also gotten a bunch of requests to check out offices in other parts of the country (I hear you, NYC), so we’ll do our best to get out there too. But for now, sit back and enjoy today’s episode. Make sure to listen to my insightful comments, like “Dog!”

1x03 TC Cribs Tours Dropbox Offices

  • 2011-02-11T01:00:00Z5m

It’s time for another tour of a hot tech company’s office, and this week brings us one of my favorites: Dropbox. The service makes it easy to share files between multiple computers, and their office is loaded with neat memorabilia, games, and unreasonably tall people. Make sure to watch til the very end for a surprise, twist ending. That I won’t be able to live down for quite a while.

1x04 TC Cribs Tours IGN Offices

  • 2011-03-03T01:00:00Z5m

This week’s episode features IGN — the web’s most popular gaming destination — which happens to have an office loaded with video game memorabilia, arcade machines, and students of comic book lore. I also get a chance to show off my innate video game-playing abilities.

1x05 TC Cribs Tours Seesmic Offices

  • 2011-03-29T00:00:00Z5m

We’re back with a new episode of TC Cribs, the show that takes you inside the hopping offices of tech startups. This week we check out Seesmic, the multi-protocol client that lets you monitor your Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and many other accounts from one place (they offer a nice web app and native mobile apps). And they have a thing for raccoons, as you’ll see in the video above.

It’s time for a new episode of TC Cribs, and this week we’re showcasing the home of one of the easiest-to-use blogging platforms around: Posterous, the service that lets you turn an email into a blog post (among other things). As you’ll see in the tour, the Posterous office is located in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District so there’s always something exciting going on outside the window. The team has also developed a strange affinity for a certain inexpensive beer… and Snuggies. Oh, and don’t worry if you’re not sure how to actually pronounce “Posterous” — in this episode, we answer the question once and for all.

1x07 TC Cribs Tours Meebo Offices

  • 2011-04-24T00:00:00Z5m

We’re back with another episode of TC Cribs, taking you inside the offices of some of the tech world’s hottest companies. This episode features Meebo, which rose to popularity as a multi-protocol web-based chat client, and has since gotten tons of traction with their Meebo Bar (not to be confused with the numerous drinking holes located in the office, as you’ll see in the episode)). Tune in to learn about Meebo’s traditions, their giant cookies, their hidden staircase to the happiest place on Earth, and the wooden board they call a ‘rock wall’ that is much, much harder than it looks. Seriously, it’s really hard. You’ll see. And do be sure to watch til the end.

Warning: if you are an obsessively clean person, you may want to skip this episode of TC Cribs. For those of you brave enough to tune in, here’s a bit of an explanation. Over the last few months we’ve seen some pretty blinged-out offices, featuring go-karts, gorgeous skyline views, and endless supplies of free snacks and beer. But the reality is that most startups don’t look anything like that. Instead, they often consist a handful of founders working (and sleeping) out of somebody’s apartment and eating ramen noodles twice a day with the occasional pizza splurge. LikeALittle (LAL) is a lot like that. For those that haven’t seen it, LAL is a college-focused service that’s like a more structured version of Craigslist’s missed connections, allowing students to post ‘flirts’ to other nearby users. The company just raised some seed money from a very impressive list of investors. And the team consists of a dozen young guys sitting in one room in a house in Palo Alto. There’s stuff everywhere. Not necessarily gross stuff, but the floor was littered with dolls, photos of Ashton Kutcher, iPads, markers, venture capitalist business cards, and popcorn. In other words, it was a lot like my college dorm. And it’s awesome.

1x09 TC Cribs Tours GroupMe Offices

  • 2011-06-08T00:00:00Z5m

Yes, it’s been a long time since we braved the curious smells of LikeALittle’s hacker hose. And while TechCrunch Disrupt may have kept you occupied for a week, that emptiness you’re feeling inside can only really be cured by one thing: a new episode of TC Cribs. Happy to oblige. This episode features GroupMe, the hot group messaging startup that has its roots in a TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon and has since landed over $10 million in funding. The NYC-based startup is full of bright hackers eager to show off their custom rugs and bingo games — and they have a decent sense of humor, too. This is one of our best episodes, so tune in.

We’re back for a new episode of TC Cribs, and it’s featuring a startup long-time TechCrunch readers will know well: Justin.tv. The office is a quirky mix of hallways, rooms that probably shouldn’t be rooms, and secret stairways — and it’s loaded with character and condiments. The company got its start back in 2007 as founder Justin Kan livecasted his life with a camera hooked up to a backpack that was loaded with batteries and modems, letting thousands of viewers watch his every move. He’s a brave man. The company’s come a long way since then: they’re now one of the most popular live streaming platforms on the web (Kan has hung up his backpack, which you’ll see in the tour). And they also recently launched a sister product called Socialcam, which is best described as an Instagram for video. Tune in!

2011-07-02T00:00:00Z

1x11 TC Cribs Bloopers

1x11 TC Cribs Bloopers

  • 2011-07-02T00:00:00Z5m

I need to start with a warning. Depending on your work environment, this may not be safe for work. Especially if you don’t want to hear some a lot of four letter words. It may not be safe around small children either. But for everyone else, you might enjoy watching this video over and over again. One of our popular TCTV shows is TC Cribs, where Jason Kincaid goes behind the scenes of a tech company to see what it’s like to work and play there. Of course, we edit it and don’t use all the material we shoot. Our editor John Murillo decided to edit together some of the outtakes. We posted the video on our internal Yammer and it was quite a hit. Jason says “wow that was painful for me to watch.” Michael Arrington’s favorite part comes around 1:55 and he said this needs to be posted. So, check it out. You might not look at Jason the same way again.

1x12 TC Cribs Tours Tumblr Offices

  • 2011-07-29T00:00:00Z5m

We’re back with a new episode of TC Cribs, and this one is sure to be a crowd pleaser: red-hot blogging platform Tumblr. The NYC-based startup has been growing like crazy (they’re now up to 11.6 billion page views per month), and they’ve given us a chance to take a peek inside their headquarters. For a company with over $40 million in funding the Tumblr team is still surprisingly small, and the office is relatively humble. But there’s plenty of charm: handcrafted furniture, board games abound, and robots that look suspiciously like my favorite wizard. Be sure to watch til the end, when I get to walk Tumblr founder David Karp’s dog. Huh?

1x13 TC Cribs Tours Etsy Offices

  • 2011-08-12T00:00:00Z5m

We’re back for a new episode of TC Cribs, and this one is chock-full of unique, incredible creations that you’ll never see in another office: yep, we made it to Etsy. The Brooklyn-based company gives artists, designers, sculptors, and all sorts of other creative people a place to sell their wares online — and the startup is eating its own dogfood by decorating its office with items purchase from the site. And boy, does it work. You can’t walk three feet without stumbling across a man-made out of metal wire or freakishly massive owl. Bonus: if you watch til the end, you’ll see a sleep-deprived version of me make a painful attempt at playing Heart and Soul. Yeah, we had to cut out some profanity.

1x14 TC Cribs Tours YouTube Offices

  • 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z5m

We’re back with a new episode of TC Cribs, and it’s featuring one of the most tricked-out offices yet: YouTube. Yes, the world’s biggest archive of cute cat videos (among other things) invited us to take a stroll through their halls, which are brimming with nifty artifacts, viral video memorabilia, and gnomes. A lot of gnomes. There’s also a big surprise that comes around two-thirds through the episode that had me hurting for a couple of days. Don’t miss it!

1x15 TC Cribs Tours Baidu Offices

  • 2011-11-16T01:00:00Z5m

Baidu is one of the most known of the Chinese Internet giants. Some of the buzz is admiration for Robin Li, one of the pioneers of the Chinese Web scene who built a global giant that succeeded in a political environment where Google cried “uncle.” Others have painted Baidu as the mirror image of Google’s lofty “do no evil” credo. So on our recent trip to Beijing, we decided to take our cameras to the search giant’s massive headquarters– which spans more than one million square feet– to see if we could find any torture chambers. Big thanks to our gracious host and good sport, Baidu spokesperson Kaiser Kuo.

1x16 TC Cribs Tours Box.Net Offices

  • 2011-08-31T00:00:00Z5m

We’re back for a new episode of TC Cribs, and this time we’re scoping out our first enterprise company: Box.net.

1x17 TC Cribs Tours Sina Offices

  • 2011-11-23T01:00:00Z5m

The runaway growth of Sina’s microblog service Weibo has been one of the hottest tech stories of the year in China, and we found out the power of the platform firsthand during the promotion and planning of TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing.

We’re back for a new episode of TC Cribs, and it’s one of our most colorful yet: Eventbrite. The company, which offers a variety of ways to coordinate events and sell tickets, has a penchant for orange — and it shows.

Season Premiere

2012-05-07T00:00:00Z

2x01 Box Moves to a Brand New Office

Season Premiere

2x01 Box Moves to a Brand New Office

  • 2012-05-07T00:00:00Z5m

After a long vacation, TechCrunch Cribs is back! But as TechCrunch alum Jason Kincaid left us with some pretty big shoes to fill, for our first installment we decided to start with a company that knows the Cribs drill already — enterprise cloud storage company Box. It was just eight months ago that Box last got the Cribs treatment, but lots has changed since then: Its employee count has doubled in size to a staff of 400, they dropped the “.net” from their name, and they moved into a bigger and better new headquarters in Los Altos, California. Watch the video above to see Box CEO Aaron Levie and enterprise general manager Whitney Tidmarsh Bouck give us a tour of all three floors of Box’s new office: We took the elevator and steps up, the slide back down, and a scooter all the way back home.

Welcome back to Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the offices of the industry’s hot companies to see what it’s really like inside the belly of the tech innovation beast (and check out the free food and fun perks that often help power it.) In this episode, we visited the downtown San Francisco headquarters of Airbnb, where we received a tour from co-founder and CTO Nate Blecharczyk. Now, I have to admit that our expectations were pretty high — after all, by running possibly the most well-known online marketplace for booking short-term accommodations, I figured that the folks at Airbnb have seen their fair share of interestingly designed interiors. I’m happy to report that the Airbnb office did not disappoint. The company has actually re-created rooms from some of the coolest properties available for rent on the site, and uses them as conference rooms. This means that there are replicas of spaces in Hong Kong, Berlin, New York City, and elsewhere that are accurate down to the smallest details, which was pretty neat to see. Watch the video embedded above to see those re-created Airbnb spaces for yourself, along with a particularly historic Skee-Ball machine, surprisingly tasty looking gourmet raw food, some *very* unique bathrooms, and more.

Romotive is one of the most buzzed-about companies in the quickly growing Downtown Vegas tech scene, so it was great to have co-founder and CEO Keller Rinaudo give us a tour of his company’s digs and give us a hands-on look at the “Romo” robot. While the Romotive team has built hundreds of Romos themselves right there in its Sin City headquarters, the company just recently signed a production contract with an Asian manufacturer that will help the company scale up its output dramatically. That means that Romos will now be poised to enter the homes (and hearts) of millions of people across the globe.

We’re back with a brand new Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series where we go inside the gates of the hottest tech companies and get a grand tour of what the day-to-day work life is like — warts, perks, and all.

A big part of what makes our Cribs series so fun to make is going behind closed doors to get a real glimpse at how a company works (and plays.) But it’s not every day that Cribs take us behind a second set of closed doors — ones that are completely hidden — and enter into top secret rooms.

This time, we headed to the shiny new San Francisco headquarters of HotelTonight, the company that makes the popular mobile apps for booking same-day hotel rooms at discounted prices. HotelTonight is very choosy about the hotels it offers on its platform, showing deals only from higher-end places with strong reviews and good design. Being that the company’s staff is on a first-name basis with some of the most gorgeous hotels in the world, HotelTonight had a pretty high bar to meet when it came to designing its own digs.

2x07 NerdWallet’s ‘Nerd Lair’

  • 2013-04-03T00:00:00Z5m

It’s unfortunate, but true: Since venture capital funding rounds often provide a straightforward time to meet and report on growing tech companies, awesome bootstrapped startups sometimes slip under our radar here at TechCrunch.

Just like Walt Whitman, the tech industry contains multitudes, and we try to represent it all in Cribs. That means that in addition to touring bootstrapped startups, we also like to go inside established tech giants — and it was pretty amazing to have the chance to take an in-depth tour of LinkedIn, the professional social network that’s grown from its 2002 inception in Reid Hoffman’s apartment to a staff of thousands, a user base of hundreds of millions, a hugely successful initial public offering, and continued stock market success.

DotCloud’s office is smack in the middle of the financial district of San Francisco, but when you step inside it feels like you’re in the middle of a jungle — albeit a very well-connected jungle with desks, computers, and intensely-focused programmers. That’s because DotCloud has decorated its office with dozens of plants in every space possible, on the floor, on desks, and even hanging from the ceilings. The greenery provides a very cool juxtaposition with the cityscape outside DotCloud’s 16th floor windows — a blend of Gordon Gekko’s office and Jurassic Park that somehow works really well.

This time, we headed about 30 miles south of San Francisco to the leafy, sunny, startup-happy paradise that is Palo Alto, California. There we visited Houzz, the startup that brings inspirational home design ideas to the web. Given Houzz’s focus, we expected to find a nice-looking office — and we certainly weren’t disappointed.

2x11 Kiip’s Motorcycle Friendly HQ

  • 2013-07-31T00:00:00Z5m

For this latest episode we headed straight to the heart of San Francisco to the headquarters of Kiip, the startup that runs a rewards-focused mobile advertising network. Kiip is situated in a part of the city that has a lot of auto repair shops — and in fact, the company’s office was a former garage — so there’s certainly a tough industrial theme there that contrasts nicely with the digital realm that Kiip’s products live in.

You’d expect something special from an L.A.-based company with tight ties to fashion, and Mulu delivered on those expectations and then some by striking the perfect balance between cozy and super cool. Watch the video above to see how Mulu created a space that’s just as fun for its grownup employees as it is for their pint-sized offspring, with a tricked-out kid’s room, a very lucky company pet, and a secret roof deck with a gorgeous view of that famous Hollywood sign.

From the outside, Pinterest is known for being one of the Internet’s go-to places for beautiful things. But on the inside, the company is also killing it from an engineering perspective — and tech folks have sometimes been known to neglect decorating their own work spaces to focus on making great products for their customers.

It’s not often that a tech company’s office can be described as “romantic,” but that’s exactly the theme of the decor at the Santa Monica, California headquarters of online matchmaking pioneer eHarmony. As you’ll see in the video above, eHarmony likes to keep its users front and center, so the office is covered with photos of smiling happy couples (many of them in wedding attire) who have met each other using the website.

Typically, TechCrunch Cribs goes inside tech companies to show a side of them that cameras don’t often see. But this episode took us to the San Francisco office of CreativeLIVE, the online education startup that broadcasts daily lessons its classrooms live to a worldwide audience — and here, cameras are literally part of the furniture.

2x16 TC Cribs Tours Wooga In Berlin

  • 2013-11-13T01:00:00Z5m

Last month, a number of us TechCrunchers grabbed our passports and jetted to Berlin for our first-ever Disrupt Europe conference. The tech scene in Berlin is very hot at the moment, so while we were in town, we knocked on the doors of a couple of the city’s startups for TechCrunch TV’s Cribs series.

Berlin is buzzing with entrepreneurial energy at the moment, and SoundCloud is one of the companies that has emerged as an anchor to the city’s growing tech startup scene. So when TechCrunch TV was in Berlin recently to cover the Disrupt Europe conference, we made sure to stop by SoundCloud’s office to check it out for ourselves.

There are a few extra special Christmas gifts that can’t be wrapped and don’t quite fit under the tree — love, family, happiness… and new episodes of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV show that takes you inside the doors of the tech industry’s hottest companies to see what day-to-day life is like for the people who work there!

Welcome to a brand new episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that goes straight into the heart of the action at the tech industry’s hottest companies to see what it’s really like for the people who work there.

Summer is just about here and the time is right for another episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the tech industry’s most buzz-worthy companies to see what it’s really like for the smarty pants people who work there.

More and more jobs deal in the virtual realm, and are done by people sitting down at desks at computers. Desk work can be made interesting in its own ways, but it’s always fun to visit a company that’s actually making physical stuff.

Welcome back for a new episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that goes inside the offices of the tech industry’s hottest companies to see what day-to-day life is like for the whiz kids who work there.

Welcome back to a new episode of TechCrunch Cribs, the video series that steps inside the gates of the hottest technology companies around to get a good look at the places, people, and oftentimes pets behind the web’s most popular products.

Season Premiere

2014-01-24T01:00:00Z

3x01 Practice Fusion HQ Reinvents Radio With Records

Season Premiere

3x01 Practice Fusion HQ Reinvents Radio With Records

  • 2014-01-24T01:00:00Z5m

Welcome back to a brand new episode of TechCrunch Cribs, the show that takes you inside the doors of the tech industry’s hottest companies to get a look at what the workaday life there is like.

3x02 DODOcase’s Dogpatch Studio

  • 2014-04-16T00:00:00Z5m

This time around, we headed to the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco to visit DODOcase, the startup that makes iPhone, iPad, Kindle, and Android mobile accessories using traditional book binding processes.

3x03 Twitch’s Otherworldly Office

  • 2014-05-28T00:00:00Z5m

In this episode of Cribs, we stopped by Twitch, the San Francisco-based startup that’s created a massively popular video platform for live streaming online gaming.

3x04 FiftyThree’s Art Deco HQ

  • 2014-06-11T00:00:00Z5m

Today’s episode brings us to the New York City headquarters of FiftyThree. FiftyThree, which is behind the Paper app for the iPad, is known for making beautifully designed mobile products — and as you can see in the video, its light-filled office is a sight for sore eyes as well.

For its 50th episode airing today, we thought we’d bring it back to the place where it all began: Scribd, the San Francisco startup that veteran TechCruncher Jason Kincaid toured in the very first Cribs episode back in January 2011.

3x06 Pocket Gems Art Filled Office

  • 2014-07-09T00:00:00Z5m

Today’s episode of Cribs brings us to Pocket Gems, the San Francisco mobile entertainment startup.

2014-07-23T00:00:00Z

3x07 Dogs Rule At BarkBox HQ

3x07 Dogs Rule At BarkBox HQ

  • 2014-07-23T00:00:00Z5m

We definitely dig dog-friendly companies here at TechCrunch Cribs, so when we were in New York City recently, we swung by for a tour of an office where pooches are definitely welcome: Bark & Co., the startup known for its BarkBox monthly subscription service of treats and toys for dogs and other pet-related ventures.

Welcome to another episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that gets nosy and tours the inside of tech companies’ offices. This time, we headed over to Lending Club, the startup that’s built an online marketplace for financial lending.

3x09 Evernote’s Notable Office

  • 2014-09-18T00:00:00Z5m

In today’s episode of TechCrunch Cribs, we headed over to Evernote, the company behind the beloved notetaking software.

3x10 Ticketfly’s Rocking Office

  • 2014-10-01T00:00:00Z5m

In this episode of Cribs, we headed over to Ticketfly, the startup that runs a ticketing platform for all kinds of live events.

2014-11-19T01:00:00Z

3x11 Famo.us Suite Offices

3x11 Famo.us Suite Offices

  • 2014-11-19T01:00:00Z5m

In this episode of Cribs, we headed over to Famo.us, the startup that’s built a web platform for developers and designers.

2014-12-03T01:00:00Z

3x12 Pact Coffee

3x12 Pact Coffee

  • 2014-12-03T01:00:00Z5m

Pact Coffee is on a mission to become a daily habit for Brits, with a tech-driven startup that can deliver the freshest coffee available, shipping within seven days of roasting. Pact has also gone for super-awesome customer service, going above and beyond the call of duty, Zappos-style.

Online dating site Zoosk just filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC, announcing its plans to raise $100 million in an initial public offering. The company, which has offers up a website and apps for daters around the world to find each other, posted a net loss of $2.6 million in 2013 on revenues of $178 million.

Welcome back to a new episode of TechCrunch Cribs, the show that knocks on the doors of some of tech’s hottest companies to see what the 9-to-5 life is like for the people who work inside.

A lot of tech employees say that they are at the office “24/7″ as they “eat, sleep, and breathe” whatever new gadget or app they’re cooking up. But in this episode of TechCrunch Cribs, we toured a company where that is literally the case every day: Meta, the augmented reality and wearable computing startup.

3x16 Chairish’s Design Filled HQ

  • 2014-08-18T00:00:00Z5m

I stopped by Chairish’s gorgeous headquarters a few months ago in April for our Cribs series

It’s time for a new installment of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV show that takes you inside the doors of some of the tech industry’s hottest companies.

For today’s episode of Cribs, we crossed the continent and headed to New York City to check out the headquarters of online stock photography powerhouse Shutterstock.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Cribs, the show that lets you snoop around the offices of the tech industry’s hottest companies. This is an especially fun episode, since we headed over to Yelp, the popular online review site.

3x20 Storm8’s Pimped Out Desks

  • 2014-08-21T00:00:00Z5m

In this episode of Cribs we headed to Storm8, the company that makes lots of popular mobile social games.

3x21 Indiegogo’s Crowd Pleasing HQ

  • 2014-11-06T01:00:00Z5m

Today’s episode of Cribs brings us to the Mid-Market neighborhood of San Francisco, which is where the popular crowdfunding platform Indiegogo calls home.

3x22 Ticketmaster’s Hip London HQ

  • 2015-01-21T01:00:00Z5m

In this special episode of Cribs we headed across the pond to London, England to check out ticketing and events behemoth Ticketmaster’s U.K. outpost.

Season Premiere

2015-05-20T00:00:00Z

4x01 Glassdoor’s Spacious Sausalito HQ

Season Premiere

4x01 Glassdoor’s Spacious Sausalito HQ

  • 2015-05-20T00:00:00Z5m

After a several month hiatus, we’re back with a new season of TechCrunch Cribs, the show that goes inside the doors of tech companies to show what it’s like for the employees who work hard (and often play hard) there. Today’s episode takes us over the Golden Gate Bridge to Marin County’s picturesque seaside town of Sausalito, which is where Glassdoor calls home. Most tech companies we tour are based in either Silicon Valley or San Francisco, so it was a treat to visit a place that is often more thought of as a destination for weekend hikes and biking trips than the daily 9 to 5 grind. Glassdoor’s 400-some staffers are a pretty lucky bunch.

Welcome back to a new episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the office spaces of all kinds of tech companies. Today we headed over to the San Francisco headquarters of Lumosity, the company that makes online games aimed at keeping your brain alert and healthy — basically like a gym for your mind. Lumosity’s games are rooted in academia, through neuroscience and biology research, and that influence is also reflected in the design of its office: Lumosity HQ feels like a mix between a state of the art science lab, a “rich leather and mahogany” Ivy League university library, and a quickly growing Silicon Valley startup. Watch the video embedded above to see how it all comes together.

Today’s episode of Cribs had us criss-crossing the country to New York City, where mobile payments juggernaut Venmo has made its home. Venmo has become enough of a phenomenon that it has become a verb in many circles — “I’ll Venmo you the cash I owe for dinner” is not an unusual thing to overhear — so it was fun to see its office in person to see where the product is made. Longtime Cribs watchers may find the space looking quite familiar: It turns out that Venmo HQ is in the exact same office space that used to be the home of flash sales site Fab, which we toured back in the spring of 2013. It became clear as soon as we walked through the doors that Venmo has definitely made the space its own.

4x04 Postmates HQ Delivers On Design

  • 2015-06-10T00:00:00Z5m

This week’s episode of Cribs takes us to Postmates, the startup that runs an on-demand delivery platform that promises to bring you practically anything — from lunch to office supplies — in less than an hour. Our video team was certainly able to get to Postmates HQ in less than an hour, since it is located literally right next door to TechCrunch’s headquarters in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. Since Postmates’ delivery service never sleeps, the company is staffed with a 24-hour customer service team that is in the office at all times of the day and night. Watch the video embedded above to see the office that keeps Postmates ticking around the clock.

4x05 About.com HQ in Times Square

  • 2015-06-17T00:00:00Z5m

Today on Cribs we headed to the headquarters of About.com, the website that features information about hundreds of topics, from health to haircare to dating, all crowdsourced and written by online experts. About.com is located at heart of New York City several floors above the tourist and bright lights of Time Square. Colleen Taylor gets a tour of About.com headquarters from CEO Neil Vogel.

Colleen Taylor gets a tour of Slack headquarters in SOMA from VP of Policy Anne Toth.

Colleen Taylor gets a tour of Pandora’s headquarters from the Director of Employee Experience, Marta Riggins

4x08 NewsCred’s On Brand Office

  • 2015-07-08T00:00:00Z5m

Colleen Taylor gets a tour of Newscred’s NYC headquarters from Co-Founder & CEO Shafqat Islam.

Today on Cribs we’re going to Refinery29, the fast-growing digital media company focused on womens’ fashion and lifestyle. Refinery29 is located at the intersection of TriBeCa and the Financial District in New York City. Colleen Taylor hailed a cab down to their swank office to meet with Connie Wang, their Fashion Features Director, for a tour.

4x10 Codecademy's Historic Home Base

  • 2015-07-22T00:00:00Z5m

Today on Cribs we’re touring the New York City headquarters of Codecademy, the startup that makes an interactive platform to teach people how to program. Codecademy is based in the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan, at 49 West 27th Street. Colleen Taylor met with Codecademy founder and CEO Zach Sims to get a tour of the space.

Today’s episode of Cribs brings us to Sailthru, the New York City based company that powers personalized email newsletters for hundreds of businesses. Sailthru’s office is located on Varick Street in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Manhattan, just a few blocks walk from the shops of Soho and the restaurants of the West Village. Colleen Taylor met with Sailthru’s CTO Ian White to get a look around.

4x12 Braintree’s Busy SF Office

  • 2015-08-05T00:00:00Z5m

Today on Cribs we’re visiting the San Francisco offices of Braintree, the payment processing technology company. Braintree has around 300 employees worldwide, 80 of whom are in San Francisco. Colleen Taylor met with Aunkur Arya, Braintree’s Head of Mobile, to get a tour of the space.

4x13 Patreon Makes Space To Create

  • 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z5m

In today’s episode of Cribs, we head to San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood to check out the digs at Patreon, a subscription-based funding platform for artists. This also happens to be the episode where I take over as the new host of the show. Hello, my new friends.

ZeroCater embeds food culture into its daily aesthetic. Along the walls you’ll see images of comfort foods and inspirational quotes from famous chefs like Julia Child, all meant to spark innovation among employees. Sarah Buhr gets a tour of ZeroCater’s headquarters from Co-Founder & CEO Arram Sabeti.

In this week’s episode of Cribs we visit Weebly, a startup that helps small businesses create an online store or website. Their new home in SOMA is a former wine packaging facility, turned 90s rave scene, that features a clean industrial aesthetic. Sarah Buhr met up with co-founder Dan Veltri to check out the new digs.

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4x16 Thumbtack's Healthy HQ

4x16 Thumbtack's Healthy HQ

  • 2015-09-02T00:00:00Z5m

Sarah Buhr gets a tour of Thumbtack from President and CEO Jonathan Swanson.

4x17 Trulia's Nature-Inspired Office

  • 2015-09-09T00:00:00Z5m

This week on Cribs we head to the land of real estate with Trulia, an online hub for home buyers and sellers. Trulia is centrally located right next to SF’s major transportation hub, the Transbay Terminal and boasts a nature-inspired design. Sarah Buhr met up with Jeff McConathy, Trulia’s VP of engineering, to check out the new space.

Ride-sharing startup Lyft gives us a tour of its fuzzy pink office on this week’s episode of Cribs. Lyft’s digs are on the edge of San Francisco’s Mission District and full of bright colors and character. Sarah Buhr met up with Jesse McMillin, Lyft's VP Creative Director, for a tour.

4x19 Hulu's Entertaining Home Base

  • 2015-09-30T00:00:00Z5m

This week on Cribs we visit everyone’s favorite online TV platform, Hulu. The digital entertainment hub located among the palm trees and movie stars of Los Angeles has changed the way we watch television. Sarah Buhr met up with Hulu’s director of workplace experience Sara Mailloux.

This week’s episode of Cribs is one for canine kind. DogVacay is a peer-to-peer dog sitting platform located in Culver City, California - and possibly the best place for bringing man’s best friend to work. Sarah Buhr met up with co-founder Aaron Hirschhorn to take a tour.

This week’s episode of Cribs takes us to Funny or Die’s hilarious headquarters in Los Angeles, California. You may know the site from such videos as Between Two Ferns and Drunk History ...but its 25 thousand square foot production house is where the fun starts. Sarah Buhr met up with several amusing characters this time around to ask them what it’s like to work where everyone’s a comedian.

Today on Cribs we head to Credit Karma, a free credit and financial management platform. Credit Karma is part of that coveted tech unicorn club and is in the same historic building as both Nextdoor and Medium in downtown San Francisco. Sarah Buhr spoke with Founder Ken Lin to see what it’s like working at a unicorn, and to check out the new space.

4x23 GoDaddy's Impressive Domain

  • 2015-10-28T00:00:00Z5m

This week on Cribs we go to website domain registration service GoDaddy. This is a publicly traded company with a fun startup feel inside its work environment. Sarah Buhr met up with Renee Reinsberg to check out the Sunnyvale, California office.

This time on Cribs we did something really different. We went to the LoveNest. It’s actually a technology co-living space instead of a startup. The Love Nest is made up of a bunch of startup founders and bitcoin enthusiasts...with a bit of a hippy vibe in Palo Alto, California. Sarah Buhr met up with Love Nest papa Joel Dietz to take a tour.

This week’s Cribs episode takes us to the visually stunning Minted office. Minted is an online marketplace of independent artists and designers, located in San Francisco’s historic Jackson Square. Sarah Buhr went to visit CEO and founder Miriam Naficy for a tour.

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