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This article originally appeared on <\/em>Muse by Clio<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Portal A opened for business a decade ago in the dark basement of an old San Francisco<\/a> Victorian. It was my partners and me, an intern, a barely functional video camera, and a dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As we bootstrapped and grew the company, we occupied ad hoc spaces\u2014a few desks with a sister company in a tough area of Los Angeles<\/a>, a carpeted room in a corporate legal office in Century City, and a retail storefront in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eventually, we opened offices of our own in two locations\u2014a beautiful space overlooking a revitalized area of downtown L.A. and a classic converted warehouse in the tech-centric SoMa neighborhood in S.F. We had 15,000 square feet to call our own.<\/p>\n\n\n