glynmoody,
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WeWork, once a $47bn firm, files for bankruptcy after accruing $2.9bn debt - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/06/wework-bankruptcy-debt-remote-work as many of us expected....

lennardvanotterloo,
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@glynmoody I’m not sure if it’s the sacking of Neumann that made the company go under or whether it went under because he was ever involved in it.

glynmoody,
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@lennardvanotterloo I never followed the company closely, but I detected bubbly qualities from the start...

lennardvanotterloo,
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@glynmoody The challenge is that it’s not a new business model, companies such as Regus have been doing this for ages with much lower valuation multiples. It transfers the risk to the company in between (Regus, WeWork) so tricky business to run.

Neumann claimed to add some special sauce to present it as a tech firm with tech valuations.

One could argue that he more or less sold a dud to Softbank and that they let him get away with to save face.

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