Gallery: What It's Like to Work Inside Jack Dorsey's Brain

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    Square Head of Office Experience Chris Gorman "strolls" the halls of the company's San Francisco office from his Tokyo hotel room atop Beam, one of multiple video-chat bots meant to keep remote workers close to the action. *Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired*[![](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/wp-content/gallery/global/creative-commons-ng.gif)](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/#faq13)
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    Square's open floor plan includes "cabanas" for cozier chats and quiet work sessions. *Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired*[![](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/wp-content/gallery/global/creative-commons-ng.gif)](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/#faq13)
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    Square hosted its annual "hack week" last week. As with most such events, the idea was to give employees the chance to bang away on informal projects from Pebble watch hacks to an office noise meter. This year's hack week was also meant to showcase the ways employees from Square's San Francisco, New York, Atlanta and Tokyo offices could work together despite the physical distance. *Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired* [![](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/wp-content/gallery/global/creative-commons-ng.gif)](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/#faq13)
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    Square's in-office coffee bar, where employees beta-test new products and work on their pour-over technique. (Dorsey is an investor in Sightglass, one of San Francisco's trendier roasteries.) *Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired*[![](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/wp-content/gallery/global/creative-commons-ng.gif)](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/#faq13)
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    "[Nixie tube](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_tube)" clock, a hack week project. Its creator, senior IT support Alex Odawa, says he hopes to expand the number of digits so the clock can display Square analytics data. *Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired*[![](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/wp-content/gallery/global/creative-commons-ng.gif)](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/#faq13)
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    Lego couch rented for hack week. *Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired*[![](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/wp-content/gallery/global/creative-commons-ng.gif)](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/#faq13)
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    Hack week also included classes entirely unrelated to Square-specific skills. *Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired*[![](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/wp-content/gallery/global/creative-commons-ng.gif)](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/#faq13)
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    For his latest hack week project, senior IT support Alex Odawa and collaborator Erik Fortin in Atlanta (on laptop screen) worked on creating persistent "windows" to keep the different offices linked with always-on video connections. *Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired*[![](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/wp-content/gallery/global/creative-commons-ng.gif)](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/#faq13)
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    It wouldn't be a San Francisco tech startup without live-streaming kittens. *Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired*[![](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/wp-content/gallery/global/creative-commons-ng.gif)](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/#faq13)
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