WeWork
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WeWork Inc. is an American company headquartered in New York City that provides coworking spaces, including physical and virtual shared workspaces, for individuals and businesses. It operates flexible office locations and related workplace services, and became widely known for its failed 2019 public offering and subsequent financial restructuring.
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Mentions of WeWork per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, business & startups.
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| Day | Share (7-day) | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 9 | 0.28‰ | 1 |
| Sep 10 | 0.53‰ | 1 |
| Sep 11 | 0.69‰ | 1 |
| Sep 14 | 0.83‰ | 1 |
| Sep 21 | 0.18‰ | 1 |
| Sep 28 | 0.51‰ | 3 |
| Sep 30 | 0.67‰ | 1 |
| Oct 5 | 0.37‰ | 1 |
Why is it trending?
WeWork’s failed public offering and disputed business model remain a cautionary tale
On The Diary Of A CEO, Adam Neumann revisited WeWork’s collapse, saying it went from 13,000 employees to 3 in one week and went public before it was ready.[1]
Steven Bartlett highlighted WeWork’s roughly $47 billion valuation and $3 billion in losses shown in its S-1, while Neumann disputed that he was fired.[1]
On Prof G Markets, Ed Elson and Paul Kedrosky used WeWork’s community-adjusted EBITDA as an example of accounting that obscured broken economics; Kedrosky called the measure fraudulent.[2]
On Office Hours with Prop G, Scott Galloway said he predicted WeWork would not go public after reading its S-1 and described the withdrawn IPO as obvious in retrospect.[3]
Other shows invoke WeWork more briefly: Michael Greenbaum discussed why Neumann could not get it public through an S-1, while This Week in Startups said using capital as a weapon did not work with WeWork.[4][5]
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- 1.The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Adam Neumann: The Real Story Behind WeWork, A $4 Billion Cab Ride, And Surviving A $460 Million DebtAdam Neumann · Sep 28 · Listen at 0:00 ↗
“I went from 13,000 employees to 3 employees in one week. WeWork was one of the fastest physical global growths the world's ever seen, but everything went wrong. We lost everything.”
- 2.Prof G Markets · Anthropic’s Financials Revealed — The Losses Are StunningEd Elson · Sep 30 · Listen at 9:42 ↗
“bad, in your view, of an accounting gymnastic move do you consider that to be? I mean, the ultimate sort of accounting mismanagement that people cite often is WeWork, where they invented this community-adjusted EBITDA, which a lot of people”
- 3.Office Hours with Prop G · Why Young Americans Are Rejecting Capitalism, and the Money Behind the Obesity CrisisScott Galloway · Oct 5 · Listen at 17:18 ↗
“and even crazy. They had never made an acquisition of that size, much less a grocer. But soon after they made the acquisition, it seemed obvious. It seemed rational. It didn't seem that provocative or risky to predict. I predict WeWork woul”
- 4.How I Invest with David Weisburd · E428: Michael Green on Peter Thiel, SpaceX, and Inefficient MarketsMichael Greenbaum · Sep 11 · Listen at 39:19 ↗
“And people misinterpreted this. If you remember, the language was, well, SPACs offer the opportunity to share prospective statements that can't be shared under traditional S1. Listen, there's something wrong with your head if you think the”
- 5.This Week in Startups · Did OpenAI Steal the Navier-Stokes Solution? | E2335Jason Calacanis · Sep 9 · Listen at 43:09 ↗
“Jason, somebody just, I think, Wall Street Journal just did an exposé. I was the third or fourth. Um, they were the first to use capital as a weapon, but nobody else has really done it. Yeah, maybe OpenAI and Anthropic are doing it now by b”
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