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> I have an unreasonable amount of anger for how much a16z put into Adam Neumann's Flow. Why so angry? I'm interested in the idea behind flow because it is no

> I have an unreasonable amount of anger for how much a16z put into Adam Neumann's Flow. Why so angry? I'm interested in the idea behind flow because it is nontraditional in the American building sense. If I understand the idea, I think providing community is a really good one. There is a lot of loneliness and we know that when seniors move into senior housing they love it. Most young adults love college dorms. So why not have that for everyone else? You do have to contrast this with the "projects" which also tried to develop community but failed I guess, maybe because economic opportunities were not included. Is Flow based on the idea of a Kibbutz?

ceejayoz 4y ago
No one seems to know what Flow actually is, which probably doesn't bode well. https://www.fastcompany.com/90847220/adam-neumann-a16z-flow-startup-real-estate-explained https://www.fastcompany.com/90847220/adam-neumann-a16z-flow-...
oldgradstudent 4y ago
> Is Flow based on the idea of a Kibbutz? Maybe based on the 1980s Kibbutz Crisis: > Investments made without economic justification: due to the ease of credit gain, the kibbutzim invested large sums of money in industry and agriculture, often when the investment did not have an economic justification, and often without sufficient examination of the investment in terms of financial risk management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz_crisis