Edition #20: Jerome Chang

Here at GCUC we are immensely fortunate to cross paths and work with so many amazing people. Through our work, we’ve cultivated a global community of people we think you should know about.

Community of Cultivators is a blog series we created to introduce you to coworking game changers and connectors. Each month, we’ll release new interviews that we hope inform and inspire you.

This month we interviewed long time friend of GCUC- Jerome Chang. Jerome is a Harvard grad, architecture specialist, owner of Blankspaces and overall coworking badass. Keep reading to learn more about him.

P.S. if you want to catch him in person he will be running the Finance session at Camp GCUC in Seattle. Snag a ticket here.

What in your life are you most proud of cultivating or creating? Why?

My 2 kids. Professionally, BLANKSPACES. It’s a culmination of years of school government, community development and volunteering…and then to test my architectural concepts.

Where do you personally feel the most sense of community?

From random, serendipitous conversations with members and connections via members. In my prior jobs, I’d only ever interact with the same 10-20 coworkers – networking events rarely meted aha moments of mental familiarity.

What podcast would you recommend to others and why?

Everything Coworking, by Jamie Russo
How I Built this, by Guy Roz

What is one piece of advice you give everyone that works with and/or for you?

Unfortunately, contracts are often meaningless.

If you had $500 to spend- what would you buy?

An overdue massage, and a nice dinner

What advice would you give to someone thinking of becoming an entrepreneur?

Two things I never even imagined:
– you’re everyone else’s safety net: your employees’, and your vendors…and even your customers
– there’s a target on your back, if your business has any level of visibility.

What is the best habit you ever started? What habit do you want to start but haven’t yet?

Skip daytime naps – you’ll disrupt your nightly, quality sleeping.

Speak slower. I think my speech trips over itself keeping up with my brain.

If you had to put a quote on your gravestone what would it be?

Pay it forward. No regrets