ThinkGeek Headquarters Bring Silicon Valley Culture to Capital
Beltway  By Wayne Rash  |  Posted 2011-12-15 Email Print this
article Print  NEWS ANALYSIS: A visit to the bustling and
cluttered headquarters of geekdom's favorite toy store reveals a
happy but surrealistic place inhabited by code monkeys and
office dogs.  FAIRFAX, Va. - A visit to the headquarters of
ThinkGeek, the phenomenally successful toy store for the
technically and scientifically inclined begins as do many such
corporate visits these days-at the doorway to an anonymous
single-story building surrounded by other anonymous buildings.
ThinkGeek clearly doesn't advertise the location of its
headquarters, and the company has no obvious means of handling
walk-in customers. That's probably why the front door stays
locked until you can summon one of the denizens within.  But
things aren't quite as anonymous as they might be in the Kansas
prairie, as they were, for example, when I recently visited the
1&1 data center. Here you're just down the str