Miguel McKelvey

Apart from differentiating our spaces with design, we also look for buildings that have distinctive character. We make sure every seat is a good one.

We've set this forever ambition to make WeWork the best place.

Rather than trying to fit a prescribed need for office sizes, we try to go with the flow of the building as much as possible.

Look, I'm 41 with a six-year-old son, and even though I live in a building with a million kids, he doesn't have one friend there because there's no context for making that happen. I think there's a huge market for a connected building where I could broadcast to other parents that I want to set up a playdate for my child.

In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and terrible.

We know the number of conference rooms and phone booths that make a building successful.

Many of our buildings have large format murals that are of varying subject matter, and we've found that those are the sort of things that make people stop, digest, and absorb.

It's so uncommon to have a place where no one can call you.

The difference between me and a lot of other people is I can feel the effect of light, space, furniture, height, scale, distance, all these micro-environments affect me in a strong way.

Hospitality is about trying to support multiple functions in one space.

We need to pay attention to the whole space - every room, chair and table - so it feels uplifting and inspiring.

People can connect in different ways. If you do a rope course with someone you otherwise wouldn't meet and you share this incredible challenge, then you have perhaps formed a bond that could last forever.