Great business model huge potential, toxic CEO, NO employee office space....
Pros
Great to be a part of a unique/niche business. Growth potential is there
Cons
For some reason, a company that provides co-working space for other companies, does not think to include/build out desks offices, or even storage space for things like company marketing material, assets, etc., dedicated to its own employees. There's TWO shared desks in Berkeley, a revenue generating conference room was converted to an office in South San Francisco. Nothing in Hayward. Being an employee that is needed on site and provides services and hardware to all employees and customers. There was no place for me to work CEO starts/comes off as a pretty nice and reasonable guy. But once you're around him and listen to how he speaks/works with vendors. You start to realize that maybe the stress of starting his own company and the experiences he's gone through in his endeavor are really affecting his demeanor with vendors, contractors and employees. CEO has a serious lack of trust in vendors/contractors and employees. He thinks everyone is out to rip him off. Probably because he's taking on too many things himself and hasn't built out an executive team to handle more of the work load. CEO will demand that every action has a plan written for approval, then the executed plan needs to be documented separately. Even if he knows that there are going to be multiple stages/steps in the plan over a period of time. Making for increased work load for even the most simple of tasks Because many things have been taken on by the CEO, skipped all together or just the bare minimum done to get things finished. Seriously affects scaling in the future. Classic case of just do it as cheaply as possible, we'll worry about things later, has been the mantra.