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Panels and roundups Graham appeared on.
In their words
We are rebuilding the space between work and life — building out a network of on-demand workspaces that layers technology and space to provide the freedom to be your best wherever and whenever you need to.
If anyone in this room has ever worked at a Starbucks, coffee shop, hotel lobby, airport — how was that experience when you were on the go? That's really where it came from.
The corporate time share: can you have a company sign a lease for one day for the next three years? Can they sign Wednesday and Friday, and can you use technology to really administer that?
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Quick answers
Who is Graham Wong?
The founder and CEO of LAUFT, an on-demand flexible workspace company he started in Toronto in 2017. He ran an advertising agency and then consulted before building it, and describes himself on the TechTO stage as a serial entrepreneur.
What is LAUFT?
A network of workspaces booked by the hour or day through an app — desks, offices and boardrooms with no contract. Its first site opened at Upper Canada Mall in Newmarket in December 2018; it now runs locations across the Greater Toronto Area.
What did Graham Wong speak about at TechTO?
He appeared on a June 2024 fireside panel on investing, adapting and building, alongside Isaac Olowolafe of BKR Capital, Jonah Chininga of Woveo and Farnel Fleurant of Workind. He described LAUFT's origin in coffee-shop working and a corporate time-share product built on the company's access technology.