My theory is that the person most responsible for the company's success is whoever makes the coffee, because without the coffee, everything stops.

As Dave Barry would say: "I am not making this up!".

I once visited this company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLSI_Technology and they had a room with vending machines where you had to buy your own coffee.

Not somewhere I'd ever consider working.

> As Dave Barry would say: "I am not making this up!".

I have only had personal contact with one company outside of SV that offered free coffee (my current company doesn't count, because the machine is provided by the management company we rent our offices from). To me, free coffee is the exception, not the rule.

Yes! I did some work for then in the 80s and remember having to pay for really very bad coffee!

no coffee no workee

"A programmer is an organism that converts caffeine into code."