WeWork: Miguel McKelvey (2018)

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In 2007, architect Miguel McKelvey convinced his friend Adam Neumann to share an office space in Brooklyn. That was the beginning of WeWork: a shared workspace for startups and freelancers looking for an inspiring environment to do their work. Today, WeWork has created a "community of creators" valued at nearly $16 billion. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," we check back with Kristel Gordon who invented a solution for easily stuffing a duvet back into its cover – it's called Duvaid. (Original broadcast date: June 19, 2017.) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:09.0	New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.
0:13.0	As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.
0:17.0	So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.
0:24.0	Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.
0:27.0	Hey everyone, so have you ever gotten tongue tied when someone comes up to you and says, what do you do?
0:32.0	Well, if so, I'm going to talk to someone who has some advice about that very situation.
0:38.0	Her name is Joanna Blore. She's a startup expert who basically helps people write their own mission statements.
0:44.0	Joanna and I will be having a live conversation in a webinar on Thursday, September 13th.
0:50.0	This webinar is free. It's supported by GoToMeeting, and it's connected with our upcoming summit in San Francisco.
0:56.0	And by the way, the summit is now sold out.
0:59.0	But if you sign up for the webinar, you will be eligible to win a free ticket to the summit.
1:06.0	So to register for the webinar, go to summit.npr.org slash webinar.
1:12.0	That summit.npr.org slash webinar.
1:20.0	And one more thing before we start the show.
1:23.0	If you've ever worked at a communal working space, they're like almost as common as cupcake shops these days.
1:29.0	But initially, the founders of WeWork had a really hard time selling that idea to the landlord who rented them their first space.
1:37.0	And now today, the company has almost 300 locations worldwide.
1:43.0	How they did it, you will love this story at first ran in June of last year. And here it is.
1:53.0	So they showed it to us. I'm like, wow, like for me, I was coming from a design background.
1:57.0	Like this is sick. This is as good as it gets. And they're basically, okay, here's the building. What would you do with it?
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