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Tech employees are paying as much as $900 a month to remain in tiny mattress “pods,” small containers manufactured from wooden and metal simply 4 ft excessive.
The pods, that are made by Brownstone, can solely match one twin mattress, and people staying must make do with out a full kitchen or laundry machines whereas additionally sharing 5 bogs.
The mattress pods are organized in are stacked two-high in dorms, and so they run on month-to-month contracts and do not require a safety deposit.
One resident, tech startup founder Christian Lewis, who created the AI agency Spellcraft, mentioned the tiny areas acquired a “little toastie,” however he had loved a restful eight-hour sleep. He and others making an attempt to launch AI careers in San Francisco praised the lodging in an interview with ABC 7 Information, notably for the networking alternatives they supplied with different pod-dwellers.
Brownstone had its first prospects this summer season, its CEO James Stallworth advised SFGATE, including that it at present rents out the areas for $500 in Bakersfield, $700 in San Francisco, and $900 in Palo Alto.
“Our non-public beds have 40% extra room than typical bunk beds, and include particular person lights, privateness curtains, temperature-controlled followers, and different necessities,” the corporate’s web site says.
“Along with your personal non-public mattress, you get keyless entry to the home in an incredible location, entry to a full kitchen, and absolutely furnished widespread areas similar to a lounge and shared workplace room,” it provides.
Stallworth mentioned that the corporate has had lots of inquiries from people who find themselves keen on AI.
“Going into the home, we simply knew there have been lots of causes to be in San Francisco,” Stallworth mentioned. “It seems AI is at present what lots of people are doing,” he mentioned, per SFGATE.
San Francisco skyline. Alexander Spatari/Getty Pictures through BI
Regardless of the excessive price for a field with a mattress, he mentioned that they are going to be at full capability in October, with all 28 of the pods taken.
Hire prices within the tech hub metropolis of San Francisco are sky excessive, with the median worth of a studio house at $2,200 a month, per actual property market Zillow.
Lewis, shared photographs of his expertise in one of many pods on X, previously generally known as Twitter, earlier this month.
“Individuals are getting bitchy however I am undecided what for. I am simply making an attempt to remain throughout the metropolis of San Francisco with out paying $4,000 a month or getting stabbed, and I feel it is a nice resolution up to now,” he wrote. “There’s lots of cool individuals right here too.”
