What comes to mind when you hear the word startup?
Millennials playing ping-pong? Busy types running around, quoting Elon Musk. and drinking soylent? If it all seems confusing to you, it might be that you’re just not quite hip enough…
This comic was created by Elizabeth Pich, half of the talent behind , for the Toggl Team.
Ever wonder why startup offices are synonymous with ping-pong tables? It all started in the 1990s. Ping-pong wasn’t perceived the same way as it is today: as a quick way to blow off steam or a ‘culture’ builder.
Instead, it was a brain exercise in which people of all ages could participate. These claims are backed by neuroscience research, which has found that .
So, maybe a ping-pong break is a worthwhile use of your time after all!
Well if you work for a startup, there’s a good chance we’ve
We didn’t stop there. We’ve also theorized what a . We think it’s pretty accurate, at least in our experience.
If you work at a startup, you’ll probably appreciate our illustrated guide to . We also did a comic about what the world would be like (it’s not pretty).
You might also enjoy It’s a highly realistic, deeply immoral game about life in the gritty startup scene of Silicon Valley.
We built the entire game during a weeklong team retreat in the Scottish lowlands (highlands were not good, terrible wifi).
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Until then – keep on trackin’!