Clark was a recent guest on Keurig's "Café Culture" podcast, which explored ideas about creating café culture from the coworking category.
In the podcast, Clark talks about how he founded Common Desk; how he loves it when people walk in off the street mistaking the company's locations for a bar; and how he first discovered the "magic" of having "serendipitous interactions" while coworking.
But two topics jump out of the podcast: why it's important for introverts to be "prodded" into going back to the office, and why companies should look for "culture adds," not "culture fits."
Common Desk CEO: Flexibility and Hospitality are Keys to Riding the Wave of 'Cataclysmic Change' in the Future of Office
Now under the WeWork umbrella, Common Desk aims to shape the growth of the flexible workspace industry. While offices still engage in what Clark calls "an amenity race," they're now more in competition with home offices rather than one another.
It's the first acquisition by WeWork as a public company since its new CEO's arrival.
Common Desk, founded in Dallas by Nick Clark in 2012, has grown its network to serve 4,000 customers at 23 locations in Texas and North Carolina. It will now operate as "Common Desk, a WeWork Company."
Built in 1888, The Continental Gin Building in Deep Ellum was the largest cotton processing equipment manufacturing operation in the U.S. and has served as space for artists. Now "The Gin" has been reimagined as a hospitality-focused, mixed-use destination that can—once again—serve as a hub of innovation.
Trey Bowles and Delanie Majors from The DEC Network hosted Founder and CEO of Common Desk Nick Clark to discuss how his company is innovating to help entrepreneurs get back into shared office spaces.
Fiction Coffee has expanded from its flagship location at Ross and Hall with a branch at Four Oaks Place, one of the largest and most prestigious office campuses in Houston.
Through the partnership, The Dallas Entrepreneur Center will get around $30K in office and coworking space in Common Desk locations across North Texas.
Common Desk announced late last year that it was opening its sixth location at Factory SixO3. Now, it's the coworking company's new headquarters, where it's moved with 49 employees.
Deskpass provides users a streamlined menu of coworking and meeting spaces to choose from. The app and membership service is now available in North Texas with more than 130 locations, including Common Desk, CraftWork Coffee Co., and Worksuites.
Common Desk has invested in Her.HQ, a Dallas-headquartered experiential workspace for women that's been operating as a pop-up in the Arts District. With the investment, Common Desk will move out of its Oak Cliff space so Her.HQ can take over.
You'll also find news from Aspire Marketing Services, Trinity Hunt Partners, Firestone & Robertson Distilling, DFW Bitcoin, Sharp, Shermco, Texas Document Solutions, U.S. Risk, and Texas Energy Control Products in this roundup of funding, merger, and acquisition activity involving companies in North Texas.
Dallas-Fort Worth ranks No. 12 in the nation, with coworking and flexible space accounting for more than 3 million square feet of space—1.7 percent of DFW's total office space inventory.
A recent report from Dallas-headquartered Regus found that flexible working creates economic, personal, and environmental benefits. Coworking companies are on pace in North Texas, ramping up new locations — most recently, Common Desk, Venture X, and new-from-Houston The Work Lodge.
Coincidentally coinciding with its sixth anniversary, Common Desk's new location will garner over 18,000 square feet of coworking space in Factory Six03.
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Trend Micro
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Throw a rock in North Texas—or Silicon Valley or Austin or NYC—and chances are you’ll hit someone who’s working on an AI breakthrough. But please don’t do that. It wouldn’t be nice, and according to the U.S....
“A car isn’t just a car today. New vehicles offer systems and components that deliver enhanced computing power but also broaden the cyber-attack surface.”
Brian Gorenc VP of Threat Research
Trend Micro
.…on...
Throw a rock in North Texas—or Silicon Valley or Austin or NYC—and chances are you’ll hit someone who’s working on an AI breakthrough. But please don’t do that. It wouldn’t be nice, and according to the U.S....