Our origin story

Life flung a bunch of lemons at us

“It was the summer of 2020. My partner, Gabe, and I were sitting having brunch trying to figure out what to do with the short term rental in our basement. With everything shut down, the income had completely disappeared. We wondered if there was a way to get back to hosting. The biggest thing standing in the way? Laundry. I mean, washing a stranger’s linens during a pandemic? Yikes! 

That’s when the idea hit. What if we put a desk in the apartment, upgraded our WiFi, and made it available for working professionals to use as an escape from their WFH distractions?

Three friends

That’s when I called two friends, Brian and iLan. And we got to work. We talked to hundreds of hosts, working professionals, employers, lawyers, real estate experts, people in security, people in HR… We wanted to build this platform based on what the community wanted, not just what we thought people should want.

A pivot here, another there…

We realized that our real opportunity was to provide conveniently located collaborative spaces that people actually wanted to go to. If a working professional could walk five minutes down the street to a small, private space and meet up with a few trusted colleagues, they’d get to have the flexibility, time savings, and work-life separation they craved while also enjoying some in-person collaboration time. Win-win.”

-Amina Moreau, CEO & Co-Founder