Day 5 Silicon Valley

First, I can’t believe we have only one more day in beautiful California. I will miss this amazing weather when I am welcomed with snow in Boston. Today our fifth day, we went to Apple and had a great visit there. We met with some great people thanks, to Tom’s father, and were very informative. Apple was very secretive, pictures were allowed in very limited areas. It reminded me of a laboratory because it was all white. Like most companies on this trip, they promote healthy living having a free membership to all their employees at their own gym. They are also a sell insured company.We also talked to this guy from Williamtown MA only 15 minutes from my hometown, that was really cool. We had a great lunch there and got a chance to talk to employees that worked there. I liked talking Brian Hoshino because he works in the finance department. After we went to Facebook and there were no parking spots. Every car was double parked and they were countless Tesla’s. Facebook’s campus reminded me of an amusement park without the rides. They have everything from their own arcade, wood shop, music room, to their own version of the Golden Gate Bridge. On their campus they have 6500 employees. I feel like with all these companies, they go by the motto “work hard play hard” and as long as you get your work done it doesn’t matter what time you come in. I saw this most at Facebook. Finally we had a very casual happy hour conversation with Priyanka from Waka Time. This was a very different atmosphere than we were exposed to all trip. We talked about finance and how to fund startups in Silicon Valley.