Seventy people paid before the doors opened. The harder business was giving them a reason to return - a lesson that shaped a Romanian workspace, education platform and startup accelerator.
In Hong Kong, Tencent WeStart brought desks, recording rooms and corporate introductions under one roof. Its bet: digital entrepreneurs need somewhere to make the work, and someone who can help it travel.
Peerspace is an online marketplace for hourly venue rentals - meetings, productions, parties, and offsites in spaces you couldn't book through a hotel concierge. Often described as the 'Airbnb for hourly spaces,' it has grown from a San Francisco experiment in 2014 into a network of 45,000+ listings across seven countries, surpassing one million bookings and $500M in cumulative gross sales.