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letsdothis3 ago

Check out some of these articles on Gaw Capital and Naked Hub:

NAKED HUB PICKS UP GRAVITY FOR AUSSIE CO-WORKING FORAY

Chinese co-working operator Naked Hub is going intercontinental by scooping up Australian flexible office platform Gravity.

Gravity says that its secret sauce in the increasingly competitive shared office market is its appeal to productivity-minded business professionals. Kitchens and lounge areas are provided in the centres, but there is no mention on Gravity’s corporate website of either ping-pong tables or beer on tap.

Gravity’s workspaces put the emphasis on productivity rather than beer pong

NAKED GROUP HIRES GAW VETERAN TO BUILD REAL ESTATE FUND MANAGEMENT BIZ – EXCLUSIVE

Jennifer Zhang has joined the firm as Head of Investment, reporting to founder and chairman Grant Horsfield. In her new role the executive will set up an investment platform targetting resort properties and commercial buildings, while also supporting mergers and acquisitions for expanding the firm’s sharing economy operations.

[The word 'naked' appears 29 times in that article.]

Vindicator ago

That sounds a bit fishy.

I would however add that ping pong, beer and food are standard office perks in the tech world. I know several guys who had to ditch Foosball in their offices because it gave them tendonitis; ping pong doesn't cause as many repetitive strain injuries that making coding hell.

letsdothis3 ago

Yes, nothing conclusive for sure. I just found the language a bit off.

'ping pong, beer and food are standard office perks in the tech world'

by accident or design?

Another article on that webiste: WEWORK BUYS CHINA CO-WORKING START UP NAKED HUB FOR REPORTED $400M

Global co-working giant WeWork is acquiring Shanghai-based naked Hub for a reported $400 million with the two parties issuing a joint statement today.

“China-born naked Hub and WeWork may come from vastly different backgrounds, but there is more that binds us than separates us,” naked Group Founder and Chairman Grant Horsfield said in a statement. “As we look to the future together, I am excited to build on the success we have had and to continue to provide amazing experiences for our China community.”

"In naked Hub, we have found an equal who shares our thinking about the importance of space, community, design, culture, and technology,” WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann said in a blog post on the company’s website. “Together, I believe we will have a profound impact in helping businesses across China grow, scale, and succeed.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Neumann

Adam Neumann (Hebrew: אדם נוימן‎; born 1979) is an Israeli–American billionaire businessman. In 2010, he co-founded WeWork, along with Miguel McKelvey.

He served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces.

He currently lives in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City with his wife Rebekah Paltrow Neumann, who is a filmmaker, and their four children who are two pairs of twins.[3] Rebekah is the cousin of Gwyneth Paltrow.

(With a name like Neumann I'm wondering if there are any distant relatives to the Frankfurt School. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Leopold_Neumann Read One-Dimensional Man ) but I digress....

Inside The Phenomenal Rise Of WeWork

And in 2015, almost two years since that first tour, a 200,000-square-foot WeWork will be the anchor tenant of the $300 million redevelopment co-owned by Boston Properties in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Plans are afoot for another partnership in San Francisco and perhaps Boston down the road.

WeWork's founders have been content to stay quiet about their story until now, swearing investors to secrecy. No longer. Over the next 12 months the company expects to triple its membership from 14,000 to 46,000 and expand to 60 locations from 21 today and 9 just a year ago. WeWork's first location four years ago was just 3,000 square feet in SoHo with creaky floorboards and walls power-washed by its founders. Now WeWork is the fastest-growing lessee of new office space in New York and next year will become the fastest-growing lessee of new space in America as it spreads to cities such as Austin and Chicago, not to mention London, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv.

Whenever you see the words 'phenomenal rise' as if we have 2 geniuses here, take a closer look....

A Peek into Dock 72 at Brooklyn Navy Yard: Image Slideshow

Shining with precision of an origami-like, ocean wave at the Brooklyn waterfront, Dock 72 conveys both fluidity of the water and a structured monumental strength. The 16-story, 250 foot-high, 675,000 square-foot building is the first ground-up commercial construction in Brooklyn in over a decade, according to Rudin Development Company.

Rudin you say?

The Rudin family controls one of the largest privately owned real estate companies in New York City.

Little Sis info on William C Rudin https://littlesis.org/person/51462-William_C_Rudin

Where else have we heard the name Rudin?

NYC - Core Club: $50K Initiation Fee - Overnight Suites - Secret Entrance - Members: Clinton, Burkle, Ghislaine Maxwell, Rothschild - Focus on Modern "Art," Which May be Involved in Child Trafficking

Member: Beth Rudin DeWoody

The comments on that post are a minefield of information.

It is time we turned our attention to the real estate agents of New York and their modelizing connections ;-)