May 7th, 2013

TC Cribs: A Trek Through DotCloud, An Urban Jungle For Plotting World Domination

It’s been a while since the TechCrunch TV team has taken a tropical vacation, but we were able to take a walk on the wild side (no passports required) while shooting this latest episode of Cribs at open platform-as-a-service startup DotCloud.

DotCloud’s office is smack in the middle of the financial district of San Francisco, but when you step inside it feels like you’re in the middle of a… → Read More

April 23rd, 2013

TC Cribs: Inside LinkedIn, The Professional Social Network With A Surprisingly Casual HQ

It’s time for a brand spankin’ new edition of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series where we snoop around inside the parts of hot tech companies that are typically for employees only.

Just like Walt Whitman, the tech industry contains multitudes, and we try to represent it all in Cribs. That means that in addition to touring smaller startups, we also like to go inside established tech giants — and… → Read More

March 20th, 2013

TC Cribs: HotelTonight’s Sleek New San Francisco HQ — And Dangerously Well-Stocked Bar [TCTV]

It’s time for another episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the hallowed gates of the tech industry’s hottest companies to get a first-hand look at what they’re really like.

This time, we headed to the shiny new San Francisco headquarters of HotelTonight, the company that makes the popular mobile apps for booking same-day hotel rooms at discounted prices. HotelTonight… → Read More

March 5th, 2013

TC Cribs: A Look Inside Weebly, The Land Of Prohibition-Era Tunnels And (Shh) Secret Rooms

A big part of what makes our Cribs series so fun to make is going behind closed doors to get a real glimpse at how a company works (and plays.) But it’s not every day that Cribs take us behind a second set of closed doors — ones that are completely hidden — and enter into top secret rooms.

So our tour of Weebly, the San Francisco-based startup that has helped millions of people start their… → Read More

February 18th, 2013

TC Cribs: Lit Motors, Where Sleek Electric Cars (And More) Are Built From Scratch

We’re back with a brand new Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series where we go inside the gates of the hottest tech companies and get a grand tour of what the day-to-day work life is like — warts, perks, and all.

In this episode, we headed to an industrial stretch of San Francisco’s Folsom Street that’s generally better known as a home for greasy car mechanic shops than for geeky web startups. But… → Read More

January 29th, 2013

TC Cribs: Inside Romotive, The Las Vegas Startup Where A New Generation Of Robots Is Being Born

It’s time for another episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you behind the gates of some of the tech industry’s hottest companies to see the factory floor where the tastiest app and gadget sausage is made.

It’s great to stretch our wings a bit beyond TechCrunch’s San Francisco base to check out Cribs in other locales — and this particular sojourn was really worth it. Earlier… → Read More

January 3rd, 2013

TC Cribs: A Trip To Airbnb’s Headquarters, Where The Coolest Rental Properties Are Re-Created

TC Cribs: Airbnb Recreates Popular Listings in Their Office

Welcome back to Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that takes you inside the offices of the industry’s hot companies to see what it’s really like inside the belly of the tech innovation beast (and check out the free food and fun perks that often help power it.)

In this episode, we visited the downtown San Francisco headquarters of Airbnb, where we received a tour from co-founder and CTO Nate→ Read More

May 6th, 2012

TC Cribs: Inside Box’s Bigger And Better New HQ – Slides, Scooters And All

After a long vacation, TechCrunch Cribs is back! But as TechCrunch alum Jason Kincaid left us with some pretty big shoes to fill, for our first installment we decided to start with a company that knows the Cribs drill already — enterprise cloud storage company Box. → Read More

November 22nd, 2011

TC Cribs: Inside Sina’s Weibo Microblog (TCTV)

The runaway growth of Sina’s microblog service Weibo has been one of the hottest tech stories of the year in China, and we found out the power of the platform firsthand during the promotion and planning of TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing. One curious thing about China’s microblog wars is that an older technology company– not a scrappy startup– became the dominant winner. That’s partially a testament… → Read More