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Office Space

MEGAN TRACY/ Receptionist ALI KENNEY/ VP of global strategy and insights
“We have a company ride day a “We started our organic garden about eight years ago, and about
few times a year, where we have 10 percent of our employees have these nice little plots. There are
a huge meeting and then go to sunflowers, tomatoes, vegetables, flowers. At lunch, you’ll see one
Stowe Mountain afterward to person weed-whacking and another one mowing. It’s a unique way
snowboard. We also do random for people from all levels of the company to find some tranquility.”
acts of ‘kegness’—after-hours
events at the office where we get
together with food and drinks
when it’s nice outside, especially
in the summertime.”

FAY LEUCK/ Product operations manager
“I work with both the hard goods [boards,
helmets, boots] and the soft goods [clothes,
outerwear] product teams, so I interact with
everybody from designers to developers, as
well as the finance and sales teams. We sit
in an open-concept room, so if I ever have a
question, it’s easy for us to gather together.”

LESLEY BETTS/
Senior product manager,
hard goods
“My absolute favorite thing
about the office is that we are CHRIS DOYLE/ Innovative prototyping engineer
allowed to bring dogs. There
“I’ve been here for almost 23 years, and Jake Burton has
are about 85 here every day. always wanted his team to think of this place as an entre-
It really adds a lot of life and preneurial setting. Each one of us is an entrepreneur in our
color to the building, and it’s own right, and you’re always trying to grow your own busi-
a great way to feel better if
ness and output, and grow the entire business as a result.”
you’re having a rough day.
I think we’re at a 1-to-3 ratio
of employees to dogs.”

28 / ENTREPRENEUR.COM / November 2018 Photograph / ADAM FRIEDBERG