The $40,000 Desk: Why Offices Will Never Be the Same Again

Welcome to AI for Founders I am Ryan Estes.
You are probably feeling the whiplash right now. Your office lease was signed in 2018 for 10 years, your team is half remote, your desks cost $15–40k a year, and your people are either lonely at home or resentful about being dragged back to the office.
Today I am talking with someone who went through the fire on this. Dan Bladen is the founder of Kadence, that is Kadence with a K, the workplace operations platform behind hundreds of companies, Fortune 50s, ten thousand teams, and tens of millions of dollars raised after a brutal pivot from dead in the water hardware to must-have SaaS.
In this conversation, you will learn how to turn empty and expensive offices into a real advantage, how to design a hybrid cadence that actually improves mentorship and family life, why sales and engineering need to share the same oxygen sometimes, and what founder-led marketing does for enterprise deals.
If you are a founder, operator, head of workplace, real estate leader, or just a sales dog wondering where your team should actually sit, this episode is for you.
Alright, let us get into it with Dan from Kadence.
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