A look inside Kickstarter's Brooklyn office where employees enjoy perks like a secret rooftop garden coffee on tap and plenty of dogs

Friday is Kickstarter's eighth birthday. Since the crowdfunding-platform was founded on April 28, 2009, the site has successfully helped fund more than 123,000 projects. To do this, the company connects the likes of filmmakers, musicians, and artists with financial backers.

With such a creative bent to the organization, we figured that the Ole Sondresen-designed workspace would be quite a unique office. When we visited in November, we found that we were right.

Here's what we saw and learned during our tour of the Greenpoint, Brooklyn-based office: