"wouldn't it be more cost-effective in the long-term to purchase a bankrupt hotel?"
It would be the ultimate extension of the Google (and Microsoft before them) "keep them at work" model. Bed, board, work in one location. Every cost could be amortized over the number of people/companies you have living there. Incomparable face to face networking opportunities.
Certainly one of those brainstorming "this is way too crazy to work...or is it?" kind of ideas.
It works on college campuses, why not elsewhere? Dorms largely eliminate the apartment-hunting roadblock and provide very close contact with (theoretically) interesting people.
I lived off campus for the last two years of college, and it made the experience suck a lot more.
This is the reason why I gave my upvote, nothing about a linkbait title or talk about VCs.
It would be the ultimate extension of the Google (and Microsoft before them) "keep them at work" model. Bed, board, work in one location. Every cost could be amortized over the number of people/companies you have living there. Incomparable face to face networking opportunities.
Certainly one of those brainstorming "this is way too crazy to work...or is it?" kind of ideas.