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Membership based live/work communities
Recognizing the rise of the sharing and freelance economy, Elvina founded PodShare in 2012 for travelers and digital nomads to experience minimalist live/work communities across Los Angeles.
Lean Startup: First 10 pods bootstrapped at Hollywood/Vine, three years spent on market research and aggregation of over 4,000 podestrians profiles (http://thepodshare.com/podestrians/) realized that 87% of Podestrians were solo travelers.
Crowdfunded: In 2015, PodShare funded 111% on Indiegogo to build its next location in DTLA of 18 pods. The new location is on the cover of Los Angeles Business Journal and Downtown News in June of 2016.
First to Market: Instead of one large building in a city, PodShare spreads "access spaces" across the city by public transportation and with access to bicycles with 12 and 24 hours rental passes, along with weekly and monthly discounts to those apartment hunting and/or interning/working temp jobs.
Hardware: "Bunk beds are for kids, pods are for adults." PodShare is continually improving its "pod" desig to replace the ladder, rickety top bed and adding amenities and shelving. In terms of co-living, PodShare is testing where we can live, in what numbers, how to activate a neighborhood, and the sociology of human "collisions"
Vertical: affordable housing, adaptive re-use of space, access not ownership, and the future of social networks with physical addresses.
Press: TechCrunch said PodShare tapped into the zeitgeist of the sharing-economy, LA Weekly named the pods "Best Place to crash", Digital LA named Elvina "Top 50 Digital Women to watch", and LAist said pods are "the future of live/work."
i'd be worried about those 4000 profiles she keeps
but everything i have learned about the realities of social interaction teach me that this concept cannot work, only the most lowT numales could live in these conditions without violence
once the underclasses and diversity get into these things with .gov subsidies ofcourse it will be a reennactment of rotherham but with manchildren instead of real children