I mean imagine if Google opens a free coworking space in NYC. Well maybe not free but do $10/month. How big do you think it would need to be? The point here is

I mean imagine if Google opens a free coworking space in NYC. Well maybe not free but do $10/month. How big do you think it would need to be? The point here is that it is far away from where it is likely to see huge demand because if it was not the fact that this is selling dollar bills for a cent would bite them immediately. It is a marketing and publicity thing, and maybe a recruitment thing: friends of employees can now come hang out. Or look at it as if Google or Microsoft or whoever sponsored a random hackerspace.