{"id":15271,"date":"2018-04-24T20:43:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rivaliq.com\/?p=15271"},"modified":"2019-11-19T18:27:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T18:27:47","slug":"culture-climbing-cocktails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rivaliq.com\/blog\/culture-climbing-cocktails\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing with a Side of Culture (and Cocktails)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember how you used to celebrate the hundredth day of the year in elementary school by bringing in 100 items (like pennies or paperclips)? We couldn’t think of 1 billion things that would fit in our office, so to celebrate our customers indexing their 1 billionth post in our app, we went rock climbing instead.<\/p>\n

In this busy world of product launches (hello, Instagram Insights<\/a>!) and social media outages (sigh, Instagram<\/a>), it can be tough to carve out an afternoon away from our computers, but our team is committed to time together for a strong and productive culture.<\/p>\n

Our Head of Culture, co-founder Seth P., is always on the lookout for team-building opportunities, and when we saw we were about to cross a major milestone in our app, he got to work. He set up an office pool (sadly, not an actual pool :-() to pinpoint the date and time of the 1 billionth post (congratulations, Mark!), and then solicited team suggestions for a proper celebration.<\/p>\n

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Suggestions…varied widely.<\/p><\/div>\n

We opted to leave our axes<\/a> at home, since our team of veteran climbers and newbies alike were most excited about rock climbing. Climbing was the perfect mix of challenging and social: everyone could find success on a challenging route, and there’d still be plenty of time for hanging out while others climbed.<\/p>\n

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Putting the “vertical” in Vertical World.<\/p><\/div>\n

When we arrived, we couldn’t stop craning our necks\u2013that joint is tall! We knew we had our work cut out for us.<\/p>\n