Understood, thanks, and yeah it’s not totally a brand new idea (except the video thing which could be a separate oddball idea), but maybe just refining a concept with remote work as the baseline. I think the main thing is the modularity and self-serve-ification. Renting a floor and doing your buildout, putting your logos, FFE, etc is non trivial and high friction. And then nobody wants to deal with how to pay for the common area stuff.

I can see why this all might sound dystopian, but it feels like a step in the right direction to me. At BigCo HQ you are surrounded by Kool-Aid. Many people have been plucked out of different places and whisked away to SV. Here it would be more diverse and less company-town-y. You could have lunch with your local friends that work for other companies. One could change jobs and stay working at the same desk. Instead of bringing everyone to the company, we bring the company to everyone.

I sense you may have balked when I said "commodify" but in this case it just meant making a luxury good attainable to more people. You have to have a strong central authority to create that kind of campus and have it not be a Regus or whatever. "Outsourcing" that to a multi-tenancy provider makes it accessible to more firms and individuals.

I’m not actually going to pursue this or anything, just thought it was interesting. Maybe instead things go the direction I gather you are espousing, moving away from offices entirely.

I’ve actually been out of the industry for a bit, maybe Covid did kill the office? Does Gen Z equate offices to corporate boomer death? To be honest I do the home/cafe laptop nomad thing as well, but I am independent, and there are challenges. I could see myself working at a facility like this if it were an option. Sometimes it’s valuable to just be in the energy of that environment.