WeWork Is Launching a Grade School for Budding Entrepreneurs
The fast-growing co-working company joins a growing list of billionaires trying to reshape American education with their influence and investments.
Students of the school pilot program at WeWork headquarters in New York City.
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WeWork says its mission is to help people do what they love. Now the office-sharing giant is testing that ethos on a smaller clientele: kindergartners.
The $20 billion startup, built on a vast network of hip co-working spaces where entrepreneurs and freelancers rent desks, is making its move into children’s education, launching a private elementary school for “conscious entrepreneurship” inside a New York City WeWork next fall. A pilot program of seven students, including one of the five young children of WeWork Cos. founders Adam and Rebekah Neumann, is under way.