Punch Bowl Social built a business on the idea that grown-ups still want to play. Then a pandemic closed all 19 rooms - and the comeback got stranger than the concept.
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.