6 — How awesome would it be to build a WeWork, but bottom-up — with Christoph Fahle and One Coworking

During this interview, we talk about:

Christoph, his former space, betahaus, and new project, One Coworking
how someone thinks about starting in 2009 what will be later called ‘a coworking space’
the yearning for freedom and community that brings spaces together

0:00 — Hello

1:07 — betahaus started in 2009, it wasn’t even called coworking

04:20 — We were spoiled a lot and only needed the money from the grand-mother to start

6:26 — We went through bankruptcy a year ago because of COVID

8:09 — It’s now a European story

10:30 — A network of coworking spaces, as a side project

13:45 — The future of work looks a lot like coworking

16:18 — This is kind of a secret, we want to work more with the spaces

17:35 — We’ll have a big announcement beginning of next year

18:30 — And it’s again different from all those virtual spaces popping up

19:33 — This is our journey towards an ecosystem for coworking

22:21 — Building betahaus was beautiful, but also exhausting

24:37 — A coworking space for pensioners?

26:30 — Coworking is a trend much bigger than the COVID crisis

28:20 — Thank you and goodbye

Speakers

Christoph co-founded betahaus, one of Europe’s earliest coworking space networks. As a CEO, he guided their strategy and expansion.

He is now working on One Coworking — a journey to make global workspace infrastructures and communities more accessible.

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