What happens when three strangers meet at a café in Tallinn and end up building one of the city’s most vibrant entrepreneurial hubs? In this episode of the Nomad Summit Podcast, Christoph sits down with the founders of Fraqmented, a community-driven coworking space that started as a simple Friday meetup and has now become a thriving home base for solo entrepreneurs, remote workers, and nomads.
Founded by three very different personalities – Çağatay from Turkey, Markus from Denmark, and Alistair from the UK – Fraqmented is more than desks and Wi-Fi. It’s a place designed to help people connect, belong, and actually build a life in Estonia. The three founders share how they met, why they dove into business together, and what they’ve learned about community, collaboration, and creating a home for nomads.
From their accidental beginnings at Fotografiska Café to launching a coworking space in just nine months, this conversation takes you inside the mindset of three founders who believe community comes before profit. They explain why Fraqmented sometimes feels more like a shared (very big) living room than a traditional workspace, and why belonging matters just as much as productivity for people who choose a location-independent lifestyle.
What We Talk About in This Episode
The idea for Fraqmented didn’t come from a business plan but from a weekly meetup that organically grew into a community. With long tables, open spaces, and a very intentional push toward interaction, the three founders designed a coworking space that encourages conversation rather than hiding behind high partitions or silent offices.
They share how:
- A simple Friday meetup turned into a 200-person community.
- They chose to work together without personality tests or complicated frameworks – and why that worked.
- Their complementary traits help them make decisions quickly and avoid ego clashes.
- They see Fraqmented not as a side hustle but as a passion-driven project.
- Estonia’s unique environment attracts entrepreneurs, but keeping them here is the real challenge.
- Long-table coworking fosters natural collaboration and turns strangers into co-founders and friends.
- They plan to expand the concept to other cities, but only with the right people and the right community-first mindset.
The episode also touches on the deeper need for belonging that many nomads feel. All three founders came to Estonia with remote jobs and discovered the same challenge: without a central place to connect, it’s easy to feel isolated. Fraqmented became that place for them – and now for hundreds of others.
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