The first year Patagonia started getting serious about the clothing business. Children were encouraged in the workplace with onsite daycare.
After unsuccessful attempts to sell Google, the team moves out of the garage to their first office in Palo Alto.
On set during the development of Toy Story. The dream of “The Movie” was 20 years in the making.
“Intensity”, taken in the kitchen one year before Atelier Crenn is awarded 3 Michelin Stars for the first time.
Saturday Night Live team sitting together for a read-through. Wednesdays are for read-throughs and rehearsals start on Thursday.
The team at Sun Microsystems behind the SPARC Processor, which used a reduced instruction set to speed up instructions.
The Doom team at id Software. Released in 1993, Doom captured the imaginations of many as the pioneering first person shooter.
The first 9 members of Airbnb having dinner in their loft office. Even from the start, the team sat in style with Eames fiberglass chairs.
Microsoft’s initial crew of 11, posing for a family photo. By the middle of 1979, BASIC was running on more than 200,000 Z-80 and 8080 machines
“Action in The Rainbow Room”: Spotify’s early team working in an apartment on Riddargatan in Stockholm
Script meeting at the set of Seinfeld. The last episode of aired that year, on May 14.
Engineers reviewing plans for the Golden Gate Bridge. Construction started the same year and was open to vehicle traffic just five years later.
The production staff at Studio Ghibli after the release of “My Neighbor Totoro”. Totoro is proclaimed as the “Winnie-The-Poo” for Japanese children.
Intel’s first 106 employees outside their corporate headquarters. That year, Intel conceived of the first commercial microprocessor, the 4004.
Started in 1979 and launched in 1984, the Apple Macintosh launched to the famous “1984” superbowl television ad.
Engineers in the Frequency & Time division at Hewlett Packard having a minute car grand prix.
The early team at Silicon Graphics. In the same year, SGI releases the IRIS 3000, the last system for Motorola based machines.
Amidst ongoing battle with Microsoft, Netscape releases Navigator 3.0, which gained over 90% marketshare.
The entire Valve Software team poses for a picture. Headcrab is not excluded.
Stripe took this picture for Bloomberg Businessweek with the caption: Would you trust these guys with your credit card?
Photoshop 2.0 for Mac being demoed by Adobe team members. System 7 added color the Macintosh which Photoshop took advantage of.
The Figma team releasing real-time multiplayer, after nine months of initial preview release.
SpaceX team warming up their new office with a mariachi band. The first Falcon 1 rocket reached orbit in 2008.
Before global expansion, LEGO focused on winning the German toy market. Here, early employees prepare products in Hohenwestedt, Germany.
Engineers at Facebook getting ready to deploy the News Feed. Facebook’s famous motto in the early days: Ship fast and break things
As your computer gets better, you use more tools across the internet. Apps that promise to make you faster, your life easier, and your work grander.
But they leave you with endless browser tabs, a crime scene of messages, and days full of calls. Taking you further from what matters most: your people. No wonder why it’s so hard to get anything done.
The gallery above is our tribute to the small groups of thoughtful, committed citizens that have changed the world. The ambitious teams of our generation deserve a single place to work with software and each other.
We built Muddy so your computers can get out of your way, and we’re excited to share it with you on April 16, 2024. Please send us a note if you’d like to work with us. Otherwise, please share your contact below so you and your crew can be among the first to feel Muddy.