Getting Our Old On

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. ~ george harrison

A year ago today, we turned the Quirky machine on and told the world about it. Here’s what’s happened since then.

People have spent nearly 100,000 hours on quirky.com. That’s 11 years.

We’ve been seen in every country around the world except the following: Sierra Leone, Guinea, Western Sahara, Niger, Central African Republic, Somalia, Eritrea, Turkmenistan, North Korea, and Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

The top 10 cities that love Quirky are (in order): New York, London, Los Angeles, Sydney, San Francisco, Singapore, Chicago, Paris, Atlanta, and Hamburg.

The iPad is the top mobile device used to get quirky.

52% of you are a PC. 39.7% a Mac.

And the following chart lists the most popular Quirky staffers as determined by Google stalking, er, i mean, search results. Those flying under the radar will have their names withheld in order preserve their personal SEO ranking, or lack thereof.

There’s so much more I can say about the last year but you probably have the attention span of a gnat so I’ll keep it short. Quite simply, none of this would have been possible without you. Thank you so much for taking part in this Quirky experiment and making it a success.

Having gone from 3 of us sitting in a shared office space in midtown to 20 people and 1 robot now filling our sweet SoHo office with a constant creative buzz, I am nothing short of amazed of what we’ve been able to accomplish. It’s our job to help bring people’s ideas to life and I cannot tell you how much fun that is.

I am greatly looking forward to this next trip around the sun. I can’t imagine what you all will surprise me with next.

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.  ~ alfred, lord tennyson