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I think in general the whole layout of the entire office is pretty interesting especially the timing of where we’re at right now with everything started off as completely blank slate and even on the more macro of like Hudson Yards and like how we were one of the first people to move in and they’re literally still building the entire place around us it’s pretty interesting so on the ground level we started with all the rooms and we’ve always had a kind of thing where we named them and we kind of went through we’re gonna do dog names or like what’s the theme of it and you know each now just has its own little thing the individuality and how it leads to just kind of the macro uniformity of the whole company which i think is just a common theme throughout Vayner in general but as you can see even like as the rooms like that’s our Maggard and like that has its own thing has its own little liking user audience right there’s one picture on the wall and over the next two years we just keep adding little snippets little snippets little snippets and it kind of started off as this blank slate and like as you can tell like we moved in in August which is a year ago like this is a blank wall right now at some point along the way something’s gonna pop up and somebody’s gonna make sense to fill this space right and it’s just gonna keep adding layer and layer and layer this room actually has gone through a name change even since we started it just made sense and you can see now it’s it’s called elephant someone’s gonna come along someone in the office is gonna be like a huge fan of elephants and like either have like some you know little tinker toys that would go on the table or play something up big on the wall something like that there’s a lot of white space in here that hundred sign kind of represents the emojis the whole kind of culture of the office a little bit we even with these iPads it’s been interesting the images keep changing like and what’s also amazing about the news we’re not we don’t draw any lines in the sand and anything so literally if someone emailed tomorrow like I have a way cooler picture of an elephant that I want to put on the iPad for when we check in we’re completely open to it it allows people that truly like have the ability to express themselves and even if they send it and it might not happen because whatever someone has a lot of heart for that one to have the know like to be in the knowing that it’s even possible it just gives you a lot of freedom of expression throughout this is decision I’ll see there’s a big picture of yes in there and I’d imagine at some point there’s gonna be a big sign that says no on the other side but like I said it’s just over time it’s just forming its own kind of feeling and energy throughout the whole thing so it’s pretty interesting actually well obviously there’s always different kind of client presentations going on different organizations coming in that will cater on an individual level but if we want to head to a kitchen I’ll show you actually it’s happening right now yeah yeah [Music] Bill Murray room not sure but someone’s definitely a big Miller Bill Murray fan these are all little different pieces of art obviously gary has his fans there’s a lot of fans of the company people like to send stuff in and so there’s all different variations Bill Murray in the Quaker head that kind of just add these little pieces and gives everyone like their own type of feeling and like feeling of ownership of it right like if you you know I have probably certain things on my wall in my room that make me feel like it’s me people are gonna like bring that stuff and like put it on the wall and it’s now part of Vayner but it’s theirs and so that again back to like that individuality kind of turns into the macro uniform of the company is pretty interesting and over time it’s just gotten more and more and more so yeah I guess what we do now is is uh it’s called Fuda with different vendor comes in every day and it works both ways right like people don’t even have to leave I literally never leave the office we have food I just but I what’s on what’s here but it also gives a big kind of platform for the different restaurants that are coming in yeah this is Marcus Marcus can give us a review of his food that he just got you know what some of the pickle so this actually this was pretty interesting this wall was painted and designed by a guy that reached out to Gary probably twelve different times on email and we passed on it passed on it passed on it and then one day we just had the energy and we’re like let’s give the dude a shot and he came in and scripted the whole thing out and so what you could see actually it’s a timeline from the it’s the history of the company starting at the beginning and it’s just little tidbits throughout that we’re kind of like big moments in the company’s history and so it’s just a wall of a timeline and this was a guy that just didn’t stop asking if he could just could have the opportunity to do something we like this work and it benefited us and he’s now part of the Vayner family he might not work here but he’s also gotten a lot of publicity and business through it so just kind of having that the mindset of allowing all these things to take shape just keep adding and keep adding and keep adding it’s just like layers of onion just keep peeling back and each one when you peel it is on its own but it makes kind of the whole thing I think another thing that’s that’s also pretty interesting is we you’re always switching up seats and it just gives you a different feel of what’s going on like we everyone gets stuck in their ways and their patterns of working and you come in you take the same elevator upstairs just go to your save desk and change it up all the time gives you a lot of flexibility and things I’m coming through oh you come out to say I think like what I was saying one of the big things in watching like even on the micro of why we keep adding stuff to the wall is we keep doing things that just add a little more character a little more character to the company on a macro like you can see that we’re literally in the middle of the biggest retail like real estate development in the history of North America and so it just gives like even that’s yeah makes you real estate the biggest development in the history well so this was always a space it started with obviously the High Line they just wanted to rejuvenate there’s opportunity hey Kim has her wealth of Walter Powell Jersey and the other side that wouldn’t be allowed because it’s all Jets over there but yeah so they were actually there was plans for the Olympic bid I think what was it 98 or something that they wanted to put a bunch of stadiums over here and then the Jets stadium was gonna go in over here which fell through and the High Line has just really like reinvigorated this entire neighborhood and they just gave a sense of hope after that was redeveloped that like really things could happen and so this used to be all really art they covered that with concrete slabs and then that really art out there will be the same Phase two they’re gonna cover that and throw up more more buildings yeah yeah exactly so like that I think that that theme is pretty interesting actually in the sense of like what’s happening at Vayner little brick by brick by brick one day at a time that keeps adding to the macro of it is happening like at the biggest scale kind of and gives you an identity and like a feeling of like belonging to like what is going to be a neighborhood I mean there’s gonna be a public school in this development and like that’s how big it is in the sense you know that they’re serving it to that level you know yeah this is an interesting spot I want to show you actually that I just like discover it and realize the other day so this is I think an interesting like space in the office right literally just a hallway like how do you find a way to make that interesting I think this is like sensory yet with light so like walk by from off and and this I think like this little tidbit I like really enjoy because it just shows a little bit about being there how there’s always things going on that necessarily you might not be in the know about but having the understanding that there’s stuff happening at all times changing up so this is water fountains don’t work at all and when people are always like well combined they’re like what’s going on like why do we have these water fountains and now if you look someone came by and put up like this like you know I don’t even know it’s called with a music I’m kind of piece of like descriptive and it says unknown artist infinite drought 2017 and just like gave like descriptions still like ones like these you know water fountains are here that don’t even work and 99% of the company doesn’t realize but like if you like just take the time to like see it and we saw and we were like put that no one even knows who the hell put that out there but that person knows right and so that adds their layer to it and just gives a little bit of owning and to the entire company you know right so like that you know it’s it’s just amazing that we allow yeah you know and I noticed just even in here there’s no faking at any point like it’s all like really real yeah