East Meets West in SF
The entire New York office flew out west to San Francisco last week for our annual holiday gathering and celebration. For a few, it was a first trip to our Mission Street headquarters.
As the New Yorkers trickled into the office Monday and Tuesday bringing with them record cold temperatures, a scavenger hunt was planned for Wednesday afternoon. Teams were broken up accordingly: a veteran, a back-up, a newbie, a techie, a New Yorker and a nerd. They were set loose in San Francisco with a $50 bill, an iPhone and a set of clues. Here’s a sampling:
- Find a famous San Franciscan
- “Here’s to you Joe Dimaggio”
- Find a journalist
- Find a current employee of Twitter, Google or Facebook
- Find a relative of a LaunchSquad employee
- This bar is built on the remains of an old ship dating back to the Gold Rush
- Find a Whole Foods employee
- Eat some Jin Dui
- Visit a LaunchSquad client
Despite almost getting thrown out of Twitter’s new corporate offices and arrested at City Hall, Team #1 and its players Jason Mandell, Melissa Biles, Tory Whitney, Miko Mercer, Brigid Zapp and Lindsey Zouien made their way to the final pitstop, LaunchSquad watering hole, Kate O’Briens, to celebrate their victory, where event chairman Brett Weiner analyzed their iPhone photos for verification.
Thursday was the most serious of the days as we met off-site for our annual company meeting, which included presentations such as, “The State of the Squad,” the future of the company and PR, “Positivity,” and ended with an awards ceremony. The most coveted prize turned out to be the Sodastream.
Friday night’s final festivities sent us all to the Foreign Cinema’s Laszlo Bar where we noshed on oysters, tuna tare tare and mini prosciutto sandwiches as we viewed our annual company movie and toasted to the holidays as a team one last time before we bid adieu. Just another great week at LaunchSquad!