Dec 23, 2022 14 min read Digital 52: Global Coworking Stories

Digital 52 1️⃣3️⃣ - Education and Coworking, Positive Impact on a second-tier city, Understanding your members, The importance of a great team: meet O4 Coworking.

Today’s story will take you to northern Poland, more precisely to Gdańsk, a city on the seaside, that is also home to a unique coworking space supporting many communities, from pupils to women to Entrepreneurs.

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Their Tags in the book
Education - Made with People - Second-Tier Cities

Read the full story of O4 Coworking on page 325 of “Around The World in 250 Coworking Spaces”.

People often ask us “where And while sometimes Google is our best secret helper, some of the coworking spaces featured in the book came directly to us. Like the one you are about to discover, which is called O4. The very first time we met O4 was actually in Berlin. At the time, the O4 team was exploring coworking in the city and ended up visiting the space where we were based. We connected with Marta, the managing director of the space, and loved hearing what she was building in her own city. During the conversation, we shared with her what we were up to with our own research and we started discussing all things coworking… and left it there.

A few months down the road, Marta’s team reached out to us to ask if we would consider coming to Gdańsk, to take part in the very first coworking conference that they were organizing: Now Coworking. We immediately said yes. Two trains and many adventures later, there we were, sharing our story, learning from O4 and other operators how coworking was changing the Polish work scene. Since then, and for various reasons (one being that the Now Conference is also where we met Kinnarps, one of our partners for the book), we’ve followed the growth and impact of O4 with great pleasure. And the best part is, you are about to discover it all, right here, right now :)

➡️ A little refresher

Who’s behind the featured space?

The initiative came from three investors: Maciej Grabski, Tomasz Woźniak, and Marta Moksa.

“We've known each other for 20 years, done a few startups together, so it was a natural, organic path of cooperation - Maciej and Tomek were always those crazy and out-of-the-box thinking people, I was the one trying to make all these strange ideas happen.”