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They are in the right space at the right time, they have the right image, and they are probably backed up by a hefty amount of good luck (and investment money)

They are in the right space at the right time, they have the right image, and they are probably backed up by a hefty amount of good luck (and investment money) to boot. There are a million and one co-working spaces, I've spent a huge proportion of my professional life at one co-working space or another, in some form or another, certainly ever since they became a "thing", and my rule of thumb that has come out of all of this is that the fancier and more salubrious (and expensive) one is, the less likely one is to produce authentic or meaningful work (obviously according to my own personal definition of meaningful and assuming that authenticity is important to the worker).

ryanwaggoner 9y ago
They are in the right space at the right time See this, what does this mean? Elementary education seems the furthest thing from their space. Why not start hotels or restaurants or hospitals or grocery stores? Those have about as much overlap with WeWork (uses physical space) as elementary education does. The only thing that seems to make sense is that parents at WeWork can more easily drop their kids there? But it seems like daycare would be 10x more useful, since it’s already expensive and hard to find in big cities, whereas elementary school is universal and free. Granted, some people are going to want to pay for private school but that’s a minority of parents, whereas basically all parents of infants and toddlers are paying for childcare one way or another. I don’t get it.
- peatfreak 9y ago
  > They are in the right space at the right time I should have made myself clearer by explaining what "space" I was referring to. I wasn't referring to any sort of educational space, I was strictly referring to the abundance of co-working spaces these days, especially "cool" ones. WeWork is the archetype of the cool (and expensive) co-working space. The area I live in has an abundance of these types of workspaces. It's almost comical. One of the newest (it hasn't completed construction yet) is advertising a creche. I thank my lucky stars that I'm in a privileged enough position that I (currently) earn enough that my partner can stay home and be the primary carer of our daughter whilst I go and work in my studio/workshop in an unfashionable (but surely up-and-coming) part of our city.

ryanwaggoner 9y ago

They are in the right space at the right time See this, what does this mean? Elementary education seems the furthest thing from their space. Why not start hotels or restaurants or hospitals or grocery stores? Those have about as much overlap with WeWork (uses physical space) as elementary education does. The only thing that seems to make sense is that parents at WeWork can more easily drop their kids there? But it seems like daycare would be 10x more useful, since it’s already expensive and hard to find in big cities, whereas elementary school is universal and free. Granted, some people are going to want to pay for private school but that’s a minority of parents, whereas basically all parents of infants and toddlers are paying for childcare one way or another. I don’t get it.

peatfreak 9y ago
> They are in the right space at the right time I should have made myself clearer by explaining what "space" I was referring to. I wasn't referring to any sort of educational space, I was strictly referring to the abundance of co-working spaces these days, especially "cool" ones. WeWork is the archetype of the cool (and expensive) co-working space. The area I live in has an abundance of these types of workspaces. It's almost comical. One of the newest (it hasn't completed construction yet) is advertising a creche. I thank my lucky stars that I'm in a privileged enough position that I (currently) earn enough that my partner can stay home and be the primary carer of our daughter whilst I go and work in my studio/workshop in an unfashionable (but surely up-and-coming) part of our city.