Co-living: Fad or phenomenon?
Last year, Antoine’s girlfriend gave him an ultimatum: it’s me, or the startup.
He chose the startup.
Which is how Antoine*, a 20-something French founder who’s been running his company for several years, came to live in the newly opened co-living space run by Parisian startup campus Station F.
It’s kind of nice, he says, to be able to really focus on the business.
Antoine now has four flatmates. They’re all founders. They share an apartment on the seventh floor of the “Atlantis” block, a 30-minute walk (or a 10-minute scooter ride) away from the Station F Campus where they all work. And they’ve been grouped together by Whoomies, a matchmaking app for flatmates, based in (of course) Station F …