Twitter is auctioning off workplace, kitchen and tech provides from its San Francisco headquarters as its monetary struggles proceed.
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Twitter is auctioning off workplace, kitchen and tech provides from its San Francisco headquarters as its monetary struggles proceed.
Noah Berger/AP
Are you in want of some mid-century fashionable furnishings, industrial kitchen gear or audio-visual methods? Or seeking to brighten up your condo with an enormous neon chicken signal?
Then you definately’re in luck. Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters auctioned off “surplus company workplace property” on-line for a fleeting 27 hours, giving potential fortunate bidders the possibility to take a bit of the struggling firm house with them.
Public sale home World Heritage Companions is working the de facto hearth sale, which closed at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on Wednesday and charged a purchaser’s premium of 18%.
The 631 heaps embody workplace provides like projectors and big white boards (in each old-school and digital form), kitchen gear from espresso machines to fridges (together with a kegerator beer dispenser), all kinds of chairs and couches and miscellaneous modern-day office staples like assorted power adapters and KN95 masks in bulk.
There’s additionally a little bit of Twitter-specific memorabilia, together with a six-foot-tall “@”-shaped planter sculpture crammed with synthetic flowers (with a excessive bid of $8,250), a blue neon sign within the form of the app’s chicken brand ($22,500) and a smaller, sturdier bird statue ($20,500).
Different notable objects embody a pizza oven ($10,000), a conference room-sized booth ($7,250) and a number of other individual soundproof cellphone cubicles, packs of high-end desk chairs ($4,900) and sit-stand desks ($900) and two stationary bikes that double as recharging stations ($2,400).
General, an eclectic assortment of products and a jarring sight for individuals who as soon as used them.
“Bizarre to see the Twitter workplace on public sale,” tweeted Kevin Weil, the corporate’s former senior vp of product. “Nice recollections from a distinct period.”
Scott Budman, an NBC Information tech and enterprise reporter, pointed out some acquainted objects: A desk the place he interviewed former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey obtained a bid for $1,000, the espresso machine the place former editorial director Karen Wickre supplied him espresso goes for $1,700.
“Good luck, I suppose,” he wrote.
Ross Dove, chief govt of Heritage World, the father or mother firm of Heritage World Companions, told the New York Times that greater than 20,000 individuals had registered to bid on-line — essentially the most of any of the agency’s auctions over the past 90 years and a reality he attributes to the general public’s fascination with Twitter and Musk himself. He estimated that the public sale would web Twitter some $1.5 million.
The public sale comes at a troublesome time for the corporate, which lost many major advertisers — in addition to staff, because of layoffs and mass resignations — after Elon Musk took over in October and has since sought to aggressively lower prices and lift income.
Musk — who has introduced his plans to resign as CEO — said in December that the corporate was “not, like, within the quick lane to chapter anymore.”
Nonetheless, its monetary outlook stays murky, with the New York Times reporting that very same month that Twitter had not paid lease for its San Francisco headquarters or any world workplaces for weeks and was contemplating denying individuals severance funds. Workers have additionally mentioned the potential of promoting usernames to generate income, the Times reported final week.
This month, Guinness World Information confirmed that Musk had broken the record for largest amount of cash misplaced by one particular person. He misplaced between $180 billion and $200 billion since November 2021, largely as a result of poor efficiency of Tesla shares lately.
Musk stays the second-richest individual on the planet and, as of this week, is on trial for securities fraud over a collection of 2018 tweets teasing a Tesla buyout that by no means occurred.
