Startup throwback photos and early-stage culture

I love startup throwback pictures like this

Every successful company has experienced this stage. The scrappy early phase is where a founding team establishes the company's culture.

If you're there now, keep going, be intentional about the vibe you set, and take some pictures! You'll look back on them and smile/laugh/reflect on stories from that period.

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Context. Quote-tweet of an @a16z post captioned "Palo Alto, 2010," a throwback photo of an early startup office and founding team. The a16z post makes no attribution; the specific company was not confirmed at the time of posting, so none is recorded here. First entry in the era-3 archive.