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Did Jesse Sharratt co-found LAUFT?
LAUFT's own team page, checked 2026-09-22, lists him as "Co-Founder | COO" directly alongside Graham Wong as "Founder | CEO". LAUFT's company blog described him as "LAUFT's co-founder" on November 26, 2024, and the Ottawa Citizen used the same description on October 21, 2025. The body copy on that same about page credits the 2017 founding to Wong alone, so Sharratt's co-founder title is the company's own label rather than a claim about who incorporated it.
What does Jesse Sharratt do now?
He is LAUFT's COO. The company's own team page, checked 2026-09-22, prints that title next to his name. On the EOS Worldwide podcast recorded August 23, 2023 he was introduced as LAUFT's Integrator, and EOS Worldwide's LAUFT case study, published May 1, 2024, describes Graham Wong and "his Integrator, Jesse Sharratt" splitting responsibility for product, sales, marketing, legal, finance and HR.
What is LAUFT?
LAUFT's about page, checked 2026-09-22, says it was "Founded in 2017 by Graham Wong in Toronto" and is "both a cutting-edge digital platform and a flexible, physical solution that maximizes space utilization across a network of locations." The same page says everything it sells is "on-demand, real-time, and contract-free" — workspace paid for by the session instead of by lease.
What happened to LAUFT's federal government contract?
LAUFT's own blog reported on November 26, 2024 that Public Services and Procurement Canada had awarded the company a $13.8-million three-year trial contract in 2022, with the first site opening in Gatineau. The Ottawa Citizen reported on October 21, 2025 that the government ended it: Sharratt said $300,000 of the contract was paid, LAUFT was left carrying $2.5 million it had invested, and about 15 people were laid off. PSPC did not comment for that story.