No kidding. At least when Brin spent company money indulging his wife, it was on a genetics startup.

Or maybe that's just my engineer's aesthetic showing how little I care for objets d'arte in the workplace.

I was reminded of 24 Hour Party People and Factory Records swish designer table (somewhere around £20k iirc)

Yes your comment is irrational. The percentage of funding spent on the offices is likely small. This made you worried about their prospects, and not recent (hard to measure) stats about flat growth?

[imho, they're doing fine, but had a bad few months. As far as execution, they are releasing a lot more a lot faster than they used to - but is it the right stuff?]

i don't see any overdose in this office. Some colorful walls, bird vinyls(except embedded ones) and ikea inspired simple furnishing shouldn't be such expensive.

I remember reading about ID software's office ( or j. carmakcs) back in bubble days where gigantic marbles allover the place, but i might be wrong with the company.

Well, they have to catch up to Facebook's overdoneness.

http://www.contemporist.com/2009/10/28/facebook-headquarters...

Looks like something that would cause Casey (from Pattern Recognition) a seizure.