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> It's not immediately clear how Flow seeks to revolutionize the residential housing industry.

I never understood how he revolutionized the "office market" with that wework stuff either. Renting out horrid shared office space with a coffee machine and printer? I guess the beer on tap was sort of original? At my old office we had beer bottles in the fridge, but still... In Oslo the prices for those wework offices were very expensive as well, and there were no quite place. Why not just go to a cafe or public library (or both) and save the money?

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Because a cafe or public library doesn't have meeting rooms, whiteboards, monitors and other facilities that you often need. I know when I was looking for a working space whilst travelling in Seoul it served a useful purpose.

I think the future will see more people working remote and travelling around looking for nomad and WeWork style places.

Well,

https://www.regus.com/en-us/south-korea/seoul/gran-seoul-tow...

> Because a cafe or public library doesn't have meeting rooms, whiteboards, monitors and other facilities that you often need.

Although a cafe will not have any of that, public libraries can often have some of that. But my point was that the horrid place they used to rent out in Aker Brygge (now taken over by another vendor) had very little of that as well. A shared noisy space + extremely tiny rooms for zoom meetings was all they had, and it wasn't cheap to rent a place there..

But at least here in Norway, there are other vendors that have much better deals. Perhaps things are very different in the US, but the product they offered here in Norway was not competitive. When I was in the market for something like that a few years ago, it was easy to find others offering much more (an actual office for myself) with access to a printer + meeting rom etc. for much less.

I don't think people realise just how bad the average corporate office is

When WeWork came along it was 10x nicer than any other office I'd worked in

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