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Woah. Wework is still a thing?
...Yes?
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Study reveals: amount of crypto on balance sheet directly correlates with cringiness of founder.
If you have hypothetical illustrations of EBITDA in your earnings calls then smuggling in a few coins won't hurt, I guess.
They must have been hit hard by COVID-19.
I'm a little suprised they're still around tbh. Their competitor in New York, Knotel, straight up went bankrupt and got sold for parts. They must've had a lot more cash to endure this.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/05/a-look-at-how-proptech-sta...

Selling short term leases on your own long term leases can probably work in places with expensive office space, but covid in NYC just completely annihilated this. The market rate for their office space now has got to be less than what they owe on their lease.

It's probably been great for the businesses who only had short term leases through them when WFH started though.

It looks that the need for coworking spaces will be growing as many people want to work mostly remotely after COVID:

https://fortune.com/2020/07/13/wework-profitable-softbank-ma...

“We have companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon who have told their employees that they can work from wherever they are,” according to Claure. “We have a lot of those employees who basically now come to a WeWork facility to use it one day a week, two days a week, three days a week.”