The coolest place to work, ever?

By Jeremy Fain, January 18, 2008

My new office. The picture was taken a few days ago when I first visited the place (a former women garment warehouse), and since then, we moved in. Btw, any design or furnishing tip? Budget = roughly zero.

I seriously want to make of it the coolest place for software developers & beautiful minds of all sorts to work in Europe. Trust me, despite appearances we’ve already got some extremely strong bearing points in this respect.

+ we might rent out some office space (250€ / desk included wireless Internet w. visitor access, electricity, security alarm, water & paper toilet, located in the very center of Paris). Give me a buzz if interested and I’ll answer when we do it if you’re early enough.

Addendum: answering several emails at the same time, yes, I’ve left Microsoft. Made the decision a month and a half ago. Enjoyed the company a lot though. Tough decision but no regret, it’s a lot of fun out there. More on this some day soon.

Addendum 2 (should’ve added that in the initial post maybe): it’s very exciting to move in your own place. The only thing is, we now have to keep cash coming in the door or we’re OOB before we can wink.

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16 Responses to “The coolest place to work, ever?”

  1. Julien says:
    January 18, 2008 at 04:51

    If I were in Paris, I would definetly ring at your door!

  2. Fidji SIMO says:
    January 18, 2008 at 05:17

    Jérémy, this looks simply great! You’ll have to add a bit of color, but this space has a lot of potential, exactly like what will be built in it I’m sure ;-)

  3. marc duchesne says:
    January 18, 2008 at 11:23

    Hi Jeremy : my warmest wishes to you and your team. About finding cash : just go where the money is. Means help your customers to save time, they’ll give you the money for that.

    Good luck,

    _Marc

  4. Leonard Sellem says:
    January 18, 2008 at 12:10

    Good luck dude for this new start!

    BTW, I’m still waiting for your invitation to visit your new office.

    See you soon

  5. nabil says:
    January 18, 2008 at 12:53

    Hi Jeremy, the only thing which catch my attention in this post is “I’ve left microsoft”! Wouaah, I am impatient to have more news about your new professional plan! By the way, good luck for the future!

  6. Emmanuel Douaud says:
    January 18, 2008 at 19:09

    I’m also very interested to know what is behind “I’ve left microsoft!”

    Give news ! ;-)

  7. UTP says:
    January 18, 2008 at 19:21

    and I thought it would be close to impossible to leave a company like Microsoft. But I see you as the 2nd person who has done the same after an office colleague who joined after leaving MS.

    Quite a decision but all for the best I suppose.

  8. Jeremy Fain says:
    January 18, 2008 at 22:04

    Friends, thx to all for your warm support.

    Leo, just pop up at the office whenever you want. Call me before to check that I’m in.

    Emmanuel: can’t disclose what we’re really doing because the products aren’t ready. We might bootstrap doing consulting at first. Just regularly check http://www.emeraldvision.eu to get a hint of the vertical we’re moving in.

    UTP: True Microsoft is hard to leave. Great atmosphere & very smart people there. I learnt a lot. I’ll explain very soon why I left. In any case, I know I made the right decision since what I want is to make a difference (something hard to achieve in an 85K-strong corporation). “All for the best” as you said.

  9. laurent Desechalliers says:
    January 18, 2008 at 22:26

    Cool Jeremy

    I will visit you

  10. Matthias says:
    January 19, 2008 at 01:05

    What a surprise to me! I wish you the very best and hope (lik many others here) to hear about your new plans and business ideas soon.

    The link to emeraldvision.eu doesn’t seem to work yet…

  11. codordog says:
    January 19, 2008 at 17:00

    By the way, we’re now looking for a trainee to replace Jeremy @ MSFT.

    If you guys know any talented students, feel free to contact me.

  12. Yann Le Gouic says:
    January 20, 2008 at 18:51

    Finally ;) What took you so long?

    Good luck! I am sure it’s gonna be awesome.

    one month and a half ago… Hum so you decided when we were visiting the valley ?

  13. Jeremy Fain says:
    January 20, 2008 at 18:55

    Right before visiting the valley, one or two days.

    Thx Yann.

  14. Maz says:
    January 21, 2008 at 16:19

    Waoh great office, high potential ! enough to fit a basketball playground ;)

    Merde à vous ++

    Maz

  15. Vincent van Wylick says:
    January 21, 2008 at 17:05

    “Merde à vous”? French people really have a weird way of communicating…

    Place looks great, Jeremy, can’t wait to see it!

  16. vd says:
    January 23, 2008 at 17:47

    Ikea … that’s where we bought our desks and Stalpes, for the chairs.

    http://lists.paradigma.pt/pipermail/tce/2008-January/000184.html

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