13 of the best 'office hacks,' according to an ex-Googler

For someone whose hack got him noticed by Google at just 18-years-old, it's no surprised that Larry Gadea is still fascinated by hacks a decade later.

After interning with Google through college and working at Twitter for two years after graduation, Gadea decided to pursue his own startup. While searching for an idea, Gadea noticed that larger companies, like Apple and Google, had some in-house office hacks that didn't seem to be accessible to smaller businesses.

In response, he founded Envoy, making it his business to make one specific office hack, visitor sign-in software, accessible for more than just the larger businesses. In a similar spirit, Envoy launched a podcast earlier this spring dedicated to exploring and sharing office hacks found in companies like Stitcher, Mozilla, and Slack. He also included instructional "how to" blog posts.

"It kind of came from the same idea of why we even started Envoy," Gadea told Business Insider. "We noticed that people were building things in their own office and a lot of companies were just rebuilding the same thing ... the point of [our podcast] Office Hacks is to kind of highlight some of the fun, quirky things that people are doing in their office to make it more efficient but also make it more enjoyable."

Here are some of the best office hacks from startups.