Jamie Hodari is an American entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of the flexible workplace provider

Industrious Industrious is a workplace experience company headquartered in New York City, that provides coworking and creates flexible office spaces for companies and individuals. It was founded in 2012 and operates in more than 200 locations and 65 cities i ...

Biography

Hodari grew up in

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Bloomfield Hills is a city in Oakland County, Michigan, Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A northern Metro Detroit, suburb of Detroit on the Woodward Corridor, Bloomfield Hills is located roughly northwest of downtown Detroit, and is ...

. He graduated from the

Cranbrook Schools Cranbrook Schools is a private PK–12 educational institution located on a campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. It includes a co-educational elementary school, a middle school with separate schools for boys and girls, and a co-educational c ...

and received his B.A. from

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

, an M.P.P. from

Harvard Kennedy School The John F. Kennedy School of Government, commonly referred to as Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), is the school of public policy of Harvard University, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Kennedy School offers master's de ...

, and a J.D. from

Yale Law School Yale Law School (YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824. The 2020–21 acceptance rate was 4%, the lowest of any law school in the United ...

. Hodari worked as a reporter for ''

The Times of India ''The Times of India'' (''TOI'') is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by the Times Group. It is the List of newspapers in India by circulation, third-largest newspaper in India by circulation an ...

'' after learning

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and

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in college, then for the law firm

Sullivan & Cromwell Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is an American multinational law firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1879 by Algernon Sydney Sullivan and William Nelson Cromwell, the firm advised on the creation of Edison General Electric and the formation o ...

after law school and was an analyst at Birch Run Capital. Hodari left finance to head a private college scholarship program for orphans of the Rwandan genocide called Generation Rwanda. He co-founded and served as CEO of

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, an experimental university tasked with bringing accessible higher education to Rwanda. In 2012, Hodari co-founded Industrious with Justin Stewart, his next-door neighbor, who was then heading the U.S. arm of a Chinese Real Estate company. The two had similar unpleasant experiences in shared workspaces, which inspired them to start a premium flexible workplace company. The company has grown to over 500 employees over 150 locations in over 65 markets in the United States and worldwide as well as one of ''Inc.'' magazine's fastest growing companies in 2020.

In popular culture

Hodari was played by

Jordan Bridges Jordan Bridges (born November 13, 1973) is an American actor, best known as Frankie Rizzoli on ''Rizzoli & Isles'' (2010–2016). Early life and education Bridges was born in Los Angeles County, California, and is the son of actor Beau Bridges ...

in the 2022 miniseries ''

WeCrashed ''WeCrashed'' is an American drama miniseries that premiered on Apple TV+ on March 18, 2022. Based on the podcast ''WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork'' by Wondery, it stars Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway as Adam and Rebekah Neumann, the marr ...

''.

Personal life

Hodari lives in

Fort Greene, Brooklyn Fort Greene is a neighborhood in the northwestern part of the New York City Borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Flushing Avenue and the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the north, Flatbush Avenue Extension and Dow ...

References

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