Joshua Abram, a serial entrepreneur whose company Neuhehouse brought upscale The style and exclusivity of the club for shared work space, because the practice known as cooperation took off in 2010, died 5th August in Moretown, VT. He was 62 years old.
His death in a friend’s house came from many myeloma, his son Max. He lived in Lyme, Conn.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about his career is that it happened at all. Mr. Abram received his first diagnosis of cancer in 2009 and was a prognosis of six to 18 months.
With the help of stem cell transplantation from his brother Adam, he survived for another 16 years and continued to create with a long -time business partner Alan Murray, who considered his defining companies.
He and Mr. Murray built companies in the sphere of digital advertising and have been working on a start-up in recent years Assumable sciencewhich aims to fully automate the in-vitro-fentilization laboratory with robotics and artificial intelligence.
Despite his background in Mr. Abram and Mr. Murray, he created an unlikely detour in 2010 and re-appeared as a stylish referee and social guardians of species with Neuheous (said Noya-House; “Neue” means “new” in German).
This hive only for members was a reversal of a business class to a utilitarian cooperating space, which provided the beginning types of Globe and creative professionals and club environments where jam and network were.
The aim was to combine the social pushing of Soho House, a London chain of private clubs known for their elegant interiors and gilded exclusivity on age, with a more functional independent Warrens, such as Wework, which began a few years ago.
The Neehhouse flagship was opened in 2013 in an area of 50,000 square feet in a 100 -year -old industrial building of a short walk from Madison Park on Manhattan. The company charged $ 600 a month to work in the main “gallery” on the ground floor, which represented the most modern appearance of the sought -after designer David Rockwell. Neuhehouse also represented private studios above, which started $ 4,000 a month.
The highly selective committee for membership sought gender division 50–50. Among the members was the author Salman Rushdie and actress Meg Ryan.
Neuhehouse, who also represented a bar and screening among many other citizens, has also become a social goal. When visiting New York in 2014, Prince William of Britain and his wife Catherine, Princess of Wales, fell at the reception was attended by actor Patrick Stewart; Jenna Lyons, then President J. Crew; And the then producer of Harvey Weinstein.
How Mr. Abram gave it 2015 interview With the magazine, the publication of Men’s Fashion Online, Mr. Porter: “We think magic will happen when people are not just controlling, but when we put together people from different environments, united by common curiosity.”
In 2016 he and Mr. Murray embarked on West and opened a Hollywood branch in the old CBS Radio building on Sunset Boulevard. Plans to open the London satellite of the same year failed.
In the end, the partners concluded that Neuhehouse is a better social and cultural experiment than the company, said Mr. Murray and in 2017 they in 2017 sold a control interest Investors, including Power Power Diane von Furstenberg and Barry Diller.
Joshua Anthony Abram was born on August 20, 1962 in Atlanta, the youngest of the five children of Morris Abram, the legal law, which was later president of the Brandeis University, and Jane (Maguire) Abram, journalist and author.
His early life was shaped by his dyslexia, which he later said that he had put the chip on his shoulder, especially because he came from an intellectual environment and tried to learn to read.
His parents eventually moved to New York and divorced in 1974. Despite his disability, he attended the exclusive rural school Riverdale in the bronx and studied history at Columbia University, although he did not study.
He got the first taste of business life as a publisher Laughtrack, “Playbill for Comedy Club Circuit”, as Times described in 1989. He was distributed through more than 140 clubs across the country with more than 500,000 circulation.
Of the several digital advertising companies he built with Mr. Murray, the greatest integral advertising science. Founded in 2009, the company evaluated the quality website and helped drive ads from Fortune 500 from Sketchier.
In his later years, he devoted his energy to representative life sciences and hoped that society could democratize fertility treatment by making them more accessible.
The idea emerged from an interview that partners with a member of Neuhehouse, a woman who described the frustration of her IVF Odyssey. Mr. Abram has been hit by the injustice of the current system in which many people cannot afford treatment whose costs can increase significantly over $ 50,000 when several rounds are required.
The traditional process includes embryologists “working on microscopes throughout the day,” Murray said in an interview, “performing one cells on eggs to put the sperm in a specific location as well as 40 years ago.”
“We are replacing the human hands of robots,” he added, “human eyes with advanced optics, and some brains work with AI systems to automate tedious aspects of work.”
The company introduced its technology in February at the Mexico City clinic operated by the partner, Dr. Alejandro Chavez-Badiola; By the middle of next year he plans to connect with a prominent clinic in California.
In addition to his son Max, Mr. Abram survived his wife Cristina Azario, which he married in 1996; another son, Harry; sister Ruth J. Abram; his brother Adam; and another brother Morris Jr.
In an interview last spring with inside reproductive health, news website, Mr. Abram outlined his ambitions: “If you think of Flight history“He said,” We went from the Wright brothers to the aircraft propeller, but we entered the current only after 40 years of history. We are going to enter the IVF age “
