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WeWork is an American company which provides shared workspace, community, and services for entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups and small businesses. Founded in 2010, it is headquartered in New York City. As of March 2015, WeWork had 29 coworking locations in 10 cities around the world with plans to expand to 60 locations by fall 2015. After a December 2014 funding round of $355 million, the company was valued at approximately $5 billion.〔 WeWork was named among the "most innovative companies" of 2015 by Fast Company magazine. WeWork designs and builds physical and virtual communities in which entrepreneurs share space and office services and have the opportunity to work together. The company’s 20,000-some members have access to health insurance, an internal social network, social events and workshops, and an annual summer retreat. WeWork has more than 250 employees〔 and plans to open additional locations in New York City, Brooklyn, London, Los Angeles, Austin, Amsterdam, Chicago, and Miami. ==History and funding== In May 2008, Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey established GreenDesk, an "eco-friendly coworking space" in Brooklyn.〔 In 2010, Neumann and McKelvey sold the business and started WeWork with its first location in New York’s SoHo district.〔 By 2014, WeWork was considered “the fastest-growing lessee of new office space in New York” and was on track to become “the fastest-growing lessee of new space in America.”〔 “During the economic crises, there were these empty buildings and these people freelancing or starting companies,” Neumann told the ''New York Daily News''. “I knew there was a way to match the two. What separates us, though, is community.”〔 WeWork members have included startups such as Consumr, HackHands, Coupon Follow, Turf, Fitocracy, Reddit and New York Tech Meetup. In 2011, PepsiCo placed a few employees in the SoHo WeWork, who acted as advisors to smaller WeWork member companies.〔 WeWork Labs functions as a startup incubator within WeWork. It provides an open workspace with the goal of encouraging collaboration among members who “don’t have their business ideas fully cooked.”〔 The first WeWork Labs opened in New York’s SoHo in April 2011.〔 WeWork investors include J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, T. Rowe Price Associates, Wellington Management, Goldman Sachs Group, the Harvard Corp., Benchmark, and Mortimer Zuckerman, former CEO of Boston Properties.〔〔 On June 1, 2015 WeWork announced that Artie Minson, former Chief Financial Officer of Time Warner Cable, would join the company as President and Chief Operating Officer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WeWork」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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