This Week in Startups

This Week in Startups

E999: ROOM CEO & Co-founder Brian Chen is building phone booths for the modern office, shares insights on maximizing open floor plans, partnering with Calm to reduce stress at work, maintaining capital efficiency as a hardware startup

Nov 8, 2019 · 00:51:33

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Brian Chen co-founded ROOM, creating modern office phone booths.
Maximizes open floor plans and partners with Calm for stress reduction.
Maintains capital efficiency as a hardware startup.

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