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[Photos] Celebrating BigCommerce 6 With Steak, A Hummer and BigCommerce-Branded Beer!

Published on July 30th, 2010 by Mitchell Harper

Yesterday our engineers and network operations team (as well as myself and co-CEO Eddie) took the day off in our Sydney office to celebrate the huge release of BigCommerce 6, which we’d been working on together since February. In true Aussie style, we dined on steak, cruised around in a stretch Hummer and made our own beer at The Beer Factory in Seven Hills.

All 62 photos are up on our Facebook page, but here are a few I liked the most. Let’s start with…

Activity #1: Cooking and Eating Our Own Steak

From left to right: Chris, Rod, Eddie, Mitch, Brendan, Gaston, Dave

Cooking our steaks up on the BBQ at Phillip’s Foote in The Rocks

Activity #2: Stretch Hummer Out to Seven Hills

Our transportation from The Rocks to Seven Hills – A stretch hummer

Hummerific – from left to right: Chris, Gaston, Gwilym, Eddie, Rodney, Ray, Rayn, Mitch, Brendan, Dave

On our way – from left to right: Rayn, Rod, Gaston, Gwilym, Ray, Brendan, Dave, Chris

Activity #3: Making Our Own Beer

The Beer Factory at Seven Hills – heaven for most Aussies

The HUGE selection of beers you can brew yourself

A few grains of barley – one of beer’s key ingredients

Cleaning bottles before filling

Bottling our custom BigCommerce brews: a German-style and a bitter English style

BigCommerce – the easiest way to drink online?

Eddie and I getting the job done

Ten cases of our custom brew – which we stashed in the hummer for the trip home

3 hours later and we’re on our way home…

You can view all 62 photos from the day on our Facebook page. On a side note, if you like steak, beer, hummers and e-commerce software then why not come and join our team here in Sydney or Austin?

Comments

  1. 1.

    Peter (August 1st, 2010, 10:58 am)

    Man, these photos make me want to quit here and work for you guys! So where can we purchase some Bigcommerce beer? “BigCommerce – the easiest way to drink online?” <——– Classic

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    Mitchell Harper Reply:
    August 1st, 2010 at 11:59 pm

    Hi Peter. We have a few cases around the Sydney office but none for sale at the moment! Maybe we should setup a BigCommerce store to sell it by the bottle :)

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  2. 2.

    Dan (August 1st, 2010, 1:57 pm)

    Congratulations guys! This is a huge milestone for all of you and a well deserved celebration! Keep up the great work and we hope to hear of many more of these milestone celebrations in the future.

    Cheers!

    Dan

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  3. 3.

    Tsi (August 2nd, 2010, 2:40 am)

    Hey,

    that looks wonderfull! Great team!

    I feel the taste of BC beer in my mouth!

    :D

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  4. 4.

    Andy (August 3rd, 2010, 12:56 am)

    Cool!

    I’ll supply the Big Commerce glowing bar :) .

    Andy

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  5. 5.

    Simon (August 4th, 2010, 8:20 am)

    So to your existing customers please advise what the upgrade plan is to 6.0 – there have not been any comms and all we see instead are photos of stretch hummers and breweries… guys by all means celebrate but don’t forget your priorities.

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  6. 6.

    Wernard Broodryk (August 5th, 2010, 7:38 am)

    I agree with Simon. We celebrate with you, and you have created a great product, but we are needing the new features promised in version 6 urgently. Please communicate when the upgrade will be done..

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    Mitchell Harper Reply:
    August 5th, 2010 at 6:11 pm

    Hi Wernard. The upgrade will be rolling out shortly. It has taken a few days longer than we would’ve liked but some necessary changes have been made to make the upgrade process as smooth as possible. We will announce when the upgrade is available on our blog.

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  7. 7.

    Russ Frazier (August 12th, 2010, 12:05 pm)

    How can I get my hands on some of that good BC brew? :)

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    Mitchell Harper Reply:
    August 12th, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    We’ve only got a few bottles left so I think you might be out of luck!

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