#hospitality-partnerships

#hospitality-partnerships

While companies invested billions in collaboration software, they overlooked the fundamental human need for quiet, private space. More than 40% of remote workers now resort to taking calls from cars, closets, or bathrooms - a symptom of the disconnect between how work happens and where it happens. ALCOVE addresses this by deploying premium, soundproofed Pods in hotels and neighborhoods where professionals already live and travel, offering bookable private workspace for $18 per hour with no membership required.

Valderrama and Senior were introduced by a friend because of their mutual interest in food and advocacy and decided to work together after just one phone call. "We had a 30-minute conversation scheduled, and we were at an hour and a half, and we just kept talking," Senior says. "It was just really a connection immediately, and we really were like, 'We need to make this into something.'"