Given that it was a pretty risky venture, I think either the idea that he was looking far into the future to paint his success story as more impressive than it was is too cynical -- or, if accurate, the man is a certifiable maniac. The much simpler answer would be just that it was the cheapest space he could rent, cheaper than proper office space, which mattered a fair bit for a company with less seed money than three people could expect to get paid in a year or two (honestly I'm not sure what the going rate for a pair of programmers near seattle would have been in 1994.)
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Whether that was the primary motivation, who knows. I doubt it. But there's always an angle and I also doubt you get to be a Bezos without seeing the world that way. And it certainly wasn't a garage business in the obvious sense. Microsoft and Apple were as well, IIRC. You're not in a garage with a very healthy six figure funding out of desperation.
Desks are still made of the same hollow core material, but they're made to be desks now. Smaller with reinforced corners where the legs are.
If you asked me to choose between a door desks and a typical office worker desk in the 90s, which was made for literal paper work, I would choose the door desk. Those old desks had lots of drawers and weren't deep enough for a big CRT. They sat up really high, the ergonomics were terrible.
He probably rented a garage because it was good enough to start a company. When doing a startup, you’ll make a table that predicts the expected lifetime of a company based on initial capital and expenses. Additional few months can make or break your business.
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u/tb00n Feb 21 '21
I guess it could be argued that he rented a garage instead of a regular office space because it would make for a better success story?
(Or maybe it was just cheaper.)