On Nov. 5, DOBE Sports LOFT Creative Park’s Founder Town (former Founder Entrepreneurial Community) held a strategic press conference under the theme “Office Revolution”. As China’s first founder community, Founder Town invited many media to witness the “Counterattack of Joint Office Market”! DOBE Group’s Board Chairman Jia Bo, President Chen Xiaoli, Huazhu Hotels Group’s Board Chairman Ji Qi, Shanghai International Airports Joint Stock Company Limited General Manager Yuan Shunzhou and related leaders attended the event.
At the press conference, Founder Town officially signed strategic cooperation agreements with DOBE Group, Huazhu Hotels Group, Shanghai International Airports, HZIsland and other leading companies in the industry. Its number of contracted projects nationwide reached 60. Founder Town became the joint office platform that has the most contracted projects in China so far. Meanwhile, according to Wan Lijiang, Founder Town has finished Angel Investment of RMB 30 million Yuan recently. This round of investment was led by Chinese hotel magnate Huazhu Hotels Group and famous angel investor Feng Bo. It’s the largest angel investment so far in Chinese joint office field.
DOBE Group’s Board Chairman Jia Bo said: “in the future, there will be an office revolution in China and the whole world. In the USA, there are more than 40 million independent worker and free-lancers. China also will have such a trend in the future——from fixed office to mobile office, from enterprise-attached to community-attached. DOBE Group will root for Founder Town’s innovation. Now DOBE Group’s over 30 parks have signed strategic cooperation agreements in an all-round way, to open to Founder. ”
The core spirit of Founder communities is “Bond, Co-Creation, and Autonomy”. The community-based shared office space provides entrepreneurs, free-lancers, fast developing emerging industries with all-round online and offline shared office services by providing flexible offices. At present, Founder Town has 8 communities in operation, 9 communities in preparation. It’s estimated at the end of this year, the number of work stations operated by Founder Town will reach 10,000. Besides providing work place services, Founder Town also works with 3rd-party platforms like Hejing Capital, i-caiwu.com, ch64.com, joyowo.com, Randstad, Heshi Consultation, to provide teams in its communities with business services like registration, human resources, legal, financial, investment and financing, helping them solve the problems in starting businesses. Meanwhile, Founder Town hires leading business founders who have rich practical experience in various industries to provide business beginners with quality tutor service.
As the founder of Founder Town, Wan Lijiang once worked in media. 7 years ago, he left the media world and came to DOBE Group. His space operation experience and understanding of future office accumulated in DOBE in the 7 years also form a big factor to help him enter the joint office field. Founder Town, as second business started by Wan Lijiang, will start off again for entrepreneurs. At the beginning of this year, to serve small and micro businesses better, DOBE Group introduced Founder Town in its Sports LOFT, E-manor of Changning and E-manor of Daning, to provide businesses in different development stages with all-round services and build a platform network.
