[5][6][7][8] Hodari worked as a reporter for The Times of India after learning Hindi and Urdu in college,[9] then for the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell after law school and was an analyst at Birch Run Capital.
[5] Hodari left finance to head a private college scholarship program for orphans of the Rwandan genocide called Generation Rwanda.
[10] He co-founded and served as CEO of Kepler, an experimental university tasked with bringing accessible higher education to Rwanda.
[11][12] 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.