…so the headline goes as two BetterWorld customers, Inc. Magazine/FastCompany and The Hub Bay Area come together in a recent online article on FastCompany.com.
Starting in the spring of this year, we began planing a voice and data solution for the new Hub SoMa in the Chronicle Building at 5th and Mission. When the doors opened in May, it was literally a flood of attention and people as the new SF Hub filled up quickly, with both tenants taking office space and people making it their landing spot for their social enterprise work in the shared space within the Hub.
Between the constant flow of people working there every day as well as event after event hosted at The Hub, the response has been a sure success. With the original Bay area Hub in Berkeley at the Brower Center and the downtown Hub in SoMa SF, the model has proven itself ready to scale and hopefully give lift to the other Hub efforts that are sprouting up around the country. The model has been successful in Europe and other parts of the globe but has yet to really take off in other parts of the U.S. outside of the Bay area.
From the FastCompany post (click here for the full copy), this paragraph rings particularily true: “The Hub SoMa is part of a greater organization called The Hub, both a physical space and a virtual network now found in 12 cities and five continents worldwide. This includes two chapters in the Bay Area: A second Hub is located in Berkeley, in the supersustainable David Brower Center. Working as managing director for both Bay Area Hubs is Michel, an excitable multi-tasker dressed in a black zip-up top who peppers his sentences with detailed references ranging from Israeli history to molecular biology to Impressionist painting. Like many of the Hub’s members, he was born entrepreneurial, launching a company out of school for international student travel and going on to found development programs in Africa and Asia. His last organization before the Hub is what he describes as a “boutique Peace Corps” program.”
We look forward to the many days, months and years ahead at the Hub as it now serves as BetterWorld’s own Hub as well in downtown San Francisco – congrats to the Hub team, Alex, Eugene and Tim!
From the BetterWorld SF Team,
Matt, Jacob and Salem
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