It took several years of planning, but a smiling Chris Aker, CEO of bootstrapped cloud hosting company Linode, finally got to see staffers chat casually in the stairwells of his company’s newly-opened Old City offices.

The freshly-cut green ribbon hit the ground at Linode’s 15,000-square-foot offices on Monday, sliced with a pair of golden scissors guided by Aker and Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, who dropped by the ceremony to celebrate the official landing of the South Jersey–founded company within city limits.

“We’re at a high poverty rate,” Kenney said. “And the only way we’ll get rid of that poverty rate is through education and access to jobs like this. We want to thank you and congratulate for helping spread that.”

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