I was there when John Doerr came to talk to us about OKRs in the fall of 1999. By then we’d outgrown my garage and moved to 2400 Bayshore in Mountain View, an old Sun Microsystems plant. The whole building might have been 42,000 square feet, and we operated in less than half of it. We had the OKR meeting in the other half, the part reserved for all-hands.
