Ryan Shank tours Galvanize, a Tribeca office offering six months free rent to Techstars alumni. He weighs the noise and shared floor against the financial advantage and proximity to other portfolio companies, deciding the free rent makes it worth the cramped conditions as a short-term move.
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So we're going to check out a new office space because our office space has a— oh, sorry. All right guys, so going to check out a new office space in Tribeca called Galvanize, and we're gonna go scope it out. It's actually 6 months of rent for free for Techstars alumni companies. Free 99! We want to just make sure that we can build a sales team like inside of the office instead of just being like packed in like sardines, and that's like cool. Curly, do it. So if it's not cool, we're actually gonna have to then go on a— oh, look at that. Wow. Squirrel. If it's not good, if we're not gonna have like our own area to be able to like be loud and like be on the phone and like ring sales gongs and stuff like that, then we're gonna have to find our own space, which would pretty much be like subletting probably inside of like another sales kind of office that makes sense for us to like, you know, be on the phones and stuff, because I don't want Do I have to be quiet? I don't like being quiet. I want it to be kind of quiet. Mike wants it to be quiet, but I don't know. I'll time travel there, so we're gonna be there in like a second. Alright guys, just time traveled here. Now we are at potential new office. Gonna hit you with some B-roll. This space is awesome. This whole space is quite nice.
We're gonna be sitting right next to a bunch of other companies.
I wouldn't mind being on the phones out there, but it's like I just know that I'm gonna be bothering people because I'm gonna be loud as fuck.
And once all the Techstars companies are in that space, it's not gonna be—
we're just gonna be bothering them. I mean, we're gonna be bothering them, but it's also for us not gonna be all that different than it is now, kind of crowded-wise and in scene. It's definitely worth free for at least 2 months. It's good. The thing is, like, can we be on the phone? Can we build a sales team? We gotta grow now. Like, there's no, like, we can't just sit on our fucking hands. That's the biggest thing. The thing is, like, can we grow a company here? Is this like a home home for us? I'm like, guys, there's been like millions of dollars that have come in. Like, what do you mean you're like 10K? The wire won't go through. There's clear wiring instructions. And everyone's like, yo, DigitalOcean did that same thing. They said their differentiator is love, right? Where they literally are like focused just like fanatical customers and the experience and like stuff like that. Ah, there he is. Rajesh, there you are. Swanky. Alright guys, so that is the vlog for today. So as you can see, the office was a really, really nice space. Um, we're gonna be a little bit cramped, but guess what? You cannot beat free, especially compared to what we're currently in right now. And then as we look for space and everything, it's a great temporary home. All the Techstars people are gonna move there, plus I live close to there. So that's what, uh, we are gonna do for the next few months. Um, but that's it, so we'll see you guys tomorrow. Peace.
