Well it turns out Silicon Valley isn't full of dirtbags after all. Zach Klein the founder of DIY and former founder of Vimeo, tweeted out this morning that their San Francisco office got robbed last night when someone broke a window and stole their computers. But a startup can't slow production just because they don't have any equipment for a week or so while they order it.
Within two minutes Path founder Dave Morin had tweeted the message out to his +300K followers and as they say the rest is history. People started chiming in from everywhere. VCs and founders offering office space, equipment, and more. Within 7-minutes the team had the four computers they needed to keep work going this week. Lets just hope their code was on Github.
Some of the more notable replies were from former Pixar CTO Oren Jacobs and Kliener Perkins Partner Chi-Hua Chien. But both small and large came together to help out a team in need. Zach tweeted out that within seven minutes they secured all the machines they need while the replacements arrive.
Here are some of the community's responses below. Now if only we could get the guy living in his car off the street. Thanks to Finbarr Taylor for writing the title.
