The beauty of the Amazon.com making-doors-into-desks tradition was not that it was cheaper (it probably wasn’t), but rather the mentality that it engendered that Amazon was a place that didn’t waste money on fancy furniture. In its early days, Intrepid Learning Solutions used to give out “Scrappy Awards” to employees who demonstrated superhuman abilities to save money.
David Cohen and Brad Feld in Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup (Page 96)
