[pwinnski]

> you ever heard of Regus before WeWork came along?

Yes? Maybe I'm just old, but I remember them in the 1990s.

Pre-crash articles[0] suggest that WeWork introduced "community" to coworking spaces, which... okay. I guess time will tell whether that fundamentally changed the idea of coworking.

It's no big new discovery that people by and large prefer new things to old things. If WeWork had lasted long enough to become an old thing before imploding, perhaps we would have seen that the difference was mostly that. Or perhaps something actually new did happen, in which case it might now be lost under the clouds of grift and fraud.

0. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/06/14/ho...