In March 2017, the New York City–based editors and writers of The Atlantic moved to a WeWork office in Brooklyn. I remember our first morning vividly: It was like entering the Millennial id. Craft beer and cucumber water poured from kitchen taps. Laptoppers in jeans and toques clacked along to MGMT in the wood-paneled common […]
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This Is Why WeWork Is Buying Meetup
WeWork is buying Meetup, it was announced today. That’s an incredibly smart move, writes Jessi Hempel. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a1c78bc00758d439ffea1f6/master/pass/Backchannel_Meetup_AW_009.JPG Feed: All Latest
$20 billion startup WeWork continues its shopping spree with $200 million for Meetup
Scott Legato/Getty WeWork announced on Tuesday that it bought Meetup, a website for organizing group trips and events. Terms of the deal weren’t announced, but Axios said the price was around $ 200 million. Meetup is only one of a slew of new investments and purchases the $ 20 billion startup has made in recent […]
One of New York’s most iconic department stores will sell its flagship location to WeWork
Mark Lennihan / AP Images Oct 24 (Reuters) – Canadian retailer Hudson’s Bay Co said on Tuesday it would sell its Lord & Taylor Fifth Avenue building for $ 850 million to SoftBank-backed WeWork amid pressure from investors to look for options for its real estate assets. Hudson’s Bay also said WeWork and private equity […]
New Airbnb Partnership Lets Travelers Work From Nearest WeWork Office
Airbnb Partnership Lets Travelers Work From Nearest WeWork Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not include […]
Airbnb and WeWork team up to find desks for business travelers
There’s one thing a hotel can offer that most Airbnbs can’t: easy access to a conference room and various office amenities. In an effort to make up for that and to entice young professionals to book a rental rather than a hotel room, Airbnb has teamed up with WeWork. According to Bloomberg, corporate customers will […]
WeWork competitors form an alliance to take on the shared workspace market
WeWork Flexible office startups Knotel and Grind formed an alliance as they try to take on WeWork, the companies announced Thursday. From now on the co-working company Grind will refer larger firms and members that want to move out of its spaces to Knotel, which caters to companies in search of a serviced office on […]
Does anybody know the password for the WeWork espresso machine
Access to coffee is a universal human right, a fact that corporations acknowledge by placing coffee machines in conspicuous locations in nearly every workplace imaginable. To give you some idea of how important coffee is, coffee is available on the International Space Station, despite the absence of gravity, which is necessary for coffee to adhere […]
