[not_paul_graham]

This seems like a good solution when all your employees are young males without spouses/kids. Also works if most of the folks living together are founders (vs early employees).

Personally I'd probably not want to be part of a young company where there was so much peer pressure [1] to stay with the founders and other team members in a cramped up apartment. But then again maybe I'm not the target hire anyway. Also, I'm not claiming to speak for all females on the planet, but most of "my" female friends would probably avoid working at such a company.

Of course if you are starting a start-up you gotta do what you gotta do to survive and minimize expenses, and all that but it seems like a practical arrangement if you are the founder and not an early employee with meager equity.

[1] Fear of missing out on critical decisions that happen before the slumber party for instance.

[rayiner]

What, you wouldn't want to live, as a woman, in essentially a geek version of a frat house?

[KennyCason]

I can completely understand. Our initial motivation was to just conserve cash as we were still very early in the design/conception phase and weren't really ready to attempt to grow. Also being married, I couldn't imagine doing this anymore haha