I decided to try a co-working space called BlankSpaces. If you're unfamiliar with co-working spaces, they are apparently the new trend for people who got tired of working alone at home. After chatting with a few of the usual suspects, I met Edward Lujan, a recently homeless entrepreneur, and Firas Bushnaq, millionaire and executive chairman of eEye Digital Security, working together on a new company.
Industrious has, as its name suggests, tried to differentiate itself from competitors like WeWork by offering co-working with a more professional atmosphere - shared workspaces without the Ping-Pong table and tequila vibe. (It was, fittingly, acquired by commercial brokerage CBRE for around $800 million in January.) It already offers higher-end co-working spaces (and has partnered with Equinox on some offices), just not, until now, this high-end.