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

April 2nd, 2013

TC Cribs: NerdWallet’s ‘Nerd Lair’, Where Pyramids Of Diet Coke Fuel Many A Pull-Up Competition

It’s unfortunate, but true: Since venture capital funding rounds often provide a straightforward time to meet and report on growing tech companies, awesome bootstrapped startups sometimes slip under our radar here at TechCrunch.

Up until now, that’s been the case with NerdWallet, the personal money management and advisory platform that has bootstrapped its way to profitability, a full-time… → 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