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I'm curious what the right course of action would have been. You mentioned that they held events, but that wasn't good enough. If you noticed people were workin

• brm 7y ago
  Successful communities involve resource sharing between peers. They need to find a way to make coworking less transactional and more cooperative. If they’re not going to be working on the same thing they need to find a reason to interact with a purpose. This is the tough river to cross in a pay for space business. It’s why hotels aren’t collegial either. If you want it to feel good or collegial you need to build in mutual benefit or a responsibility of ownership like when a grocery coop has members do monthly work for the benefit of the coop. I’m honestly not sure what a corporate coworking space can do to get what they’re doing to this point.
  • josh_carterPDX 7y ago
    I think that's what excites me about WeWork Labs. It's not just dedicated desks. There is programming and real tangible help. I've been speaking to a number of founders who were WeWork members, but got so much more when they moved to the Labs space. Full disclosure: I am the WeWork Labs Manager for Portland.