Jonathon O'Byrne on coworking spaces and their importance in the future

Jonathon OByrne is the founder of Collective Works, the largest coworking space in Singapore. Looking over 90 businesses there, his business has quadrupled in size since he opened it two years ago. This allows small companies or startups to rent office space and have access to people one otherwise wouldn't have access to. It is what hostels are to the business office rental. 

He opened this coworking space in isolation and when he opened his he thought he had opened the first one in the world. Seeing a need in Singapore to make it easy for someone to easily rent office space, especially for high performing spouses. Since Singapore attracts a host of high performance people, their high performance spouse usually comes along with nothing to do. This means that they now have something to apply themselves towards. Since the minimum and maximum stays are not really set, a company could stay as long as needed. Many times even corporations and for their regional branches to be held in a coworking space.