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I can totally recommend the office with Thomas and Basti organising it. I come here once a week and I enjoy working there a lot. The rooms are spacious, we have spare monitors, the kitchen is big enough to have lunch together and it’s great to bump into people working on EA things :)
If you are ever in Berlin, feel free to come by.
Glad you’re doing this.
Probably not the most useful feedback but: I’d vote in favour of a more central location. I was keen to come work with you for 2 weeks but unfortunately it’s 35 min drive / 45 min U-Bahn from my place in Neukölln.
Thanks for the feedback. I’m kind of with you, but having a nice office in a really central location would increase the price at least 3x (+ significant setup costs). In addition some of the regulars are living pretty close so it wouldn’t be an improvement for everybody. Nevertheless, if someone would be willing to commit €500,000+ I’m very happy to talk and/or help.
I’m curious: how much are you spending on this on a yearly basis, roughly? It seems a very effective thing to develop a real tight and collaborative community.
Very rough monthly cost all in (rent, insurance, electricity, heating, cleaning, internet… ) is around 3.500€. In addition we had some upfront costs (mostly furniture) of around 11,000€. We currently also tend to buy a lot of new stuff which adds up to a couple of hundreds of Euros every month (e.g. we got a Microwave today, last week we bought an air purifier… ). Next week we will get some phone booths which will luckily be paid for through a grant from the EA Infrastructure Fund though (around 14,000€ for 4).
So currently we are still subsidizing the office through our main project (or we just pay a relatively high rent ourselves) but we are getting closer for it to be financial self sufficient (probably not if I would honestly calculate the staff time we invested though). Still feels like a really good investment, especially since we started hosting (small) events as well (e.g. EA Berlin Meetup, EA Consulting Network Meetup, AI Lecture… ).
Make sure to visit us if you are ever in Berlin.
Sounds really cool. Time to visit Berlin! :)